Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-6681-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6681-1 advisory. Wenqing Liu discovered that the f2fs file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate inode types while performing...

CVE-2013-0311: Undefined Security Weakness

The translatedesc function in drivers/vhost/vhost.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7 does not properly handle cross-region descriptors, which allows guest OS users to obtain host OS privileges by leveraging KVM guest OS privileges...