UBUNTU-CVE-2026-97988

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vhost: invalidate vring access on IOTLB transitions When VIRTIOFACCESSPLATFORM changes, cached vring pointers and IOTLB metadata are interpreted in a different address space. Keeping them across the transition can leave stale rin...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-97988

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - vhost: invalidate vring access on IOTLB transitions When VIRTIOFACCESSPLATFORM changes, cached vring pointers and IOTLB metadata are interpreted in a different...

Oracle Linux 4 : libgtop2 (ELSA-2007-0765)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2007:0765 : An updated libgtop2 package that fixes a security issue and a functionality bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The libgtop2 package...

Scientific Linux Security Update : libgtop2 on SL4.x i386/x86_64

A flaw was found in the way libgtop2 handled long filenames mapped into the address space of a process. An attacker could execute arbitrary code on behalf of the user running gnome-system-monitor by executing a process and mapping a file with a specially crafted name into the processes' address...