EUVD-2017-11772

Malware in sbrugna...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

Linux kernel is vulnerable to denial of service DoS attacks. This occurs while emulating VMXON instruction in 'handlevmon' improperly. An L1 guest user could use this flaw to leak host memory potentially resulting in a system crash...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3312-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3312-1 advisory. It was discovered that the netfilter netlink implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate batch messages. A local attacker with the...

CVE-2017-2596: Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

The nestedvmxcheckvmptr function in arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the Linux kernel through 4.9.8 improperly emulates the VMXON instruction, which allows KVM L1 guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS memory consumption by leveraging the mishandling of page references...