Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-5072-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5072-1 advisory. Maxim Levitsky and Paolo Bonzini discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation for AMD processors in the Linux kernel allowed a guest VM to disable...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : Linux kernel vulnerability (USN-5062-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5062-1 advisory. Maxim Levitsky discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation for AMD processors in the Linux kernel did not properly prevent a guest VM from enabling AVIC in...

Oracle Linux 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2021-9419)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2021-9419 advisory. - KVM: nSVM: always intercept VMLOAD/VMSAVE when nested Maxim Levitsky Orabug: 33205367 CVE-2021-3656 CVE-2021-3656 Tenable has extracted the preceding...