Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-5073-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5073-1 advisory. Maxim Levitsky and Paolo Bonzini discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation for AMD processors in the Linux kernel allowed a guest VM ...

CVE-2021-38160: Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input

In drivers/char/virtioconsole.c in the Linux kernel before 5.13.4, data corruption or loss can be triggered by an untrusted device that supplies a buf-len value exceeding the buffer size. NOTE: the vendor indicates that the cited data corruption is not a vulnerability in any existing use case; th...