USN-5073-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-dell300x, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-snapdragon vulnerabilities

Maxim Levitsky and Paolo Bonzini discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation for AMD processors in the Linux kernel allowed a guest VM to disable restrictions on VMLOAD/VMSAVE in a nested guest. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to read or write portions of the host's physical memory...

kernel: race condition in net/can/bcm.c leads to local privilege escalation

A flaw was found in the CAN BCM networking protocol in the Linux kernel, where a local attacker can abuse a flaw in the CAN subsystem to corrupt memory, crash the system or escalate privileges...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for the Linux Kernel Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:2427-1 Rating: important References: 1153720 1174978 1179610 1181193 1185428 1185701 1185861 1186463 1186484 1187038 1187050 1187215 1187452 1187554 1187595 1187601 1188062 1188116 Cross-References:...