AMD CPUs May Transiently Execute Beyond Unconditional Direct Branch

Bulletin ID: AMD-SB-1026 Potential Impact: Data leakage Severity: Medium Summary AMD is providing an update for one recommended mitigation, mitigation G-5, in the “Software Techniques for Managing Speculation on AMD processors” white paper. Mitigation G-5 helps address potential vulnerabilities...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8595

arch/x86/x86emulate/x86emulate.c in Xen 3.2.1 through 4.4.x does not properly check privileges, which allows local HVM guest users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service crash via a crafted 1 CALL, 2 JMP, 3 RETF, 4 LCALL, 5 LJMP, or 6 LRET far branch instruction...