CVE-2018-8897

A statement in the System Programming Guide of the Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual SDM was mishandled in the development of some or all operating-system kernels, resulting in unexpected behavior for DB exceptions that are deferred by MOV SS or POP SS, as demonstrated ...

CVE-2018-8897

A statement in the System Programming Guide of the Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual SDM was mishandled in the development of some or all operating-system kernels, resulting in unexpected behavior for DB exceptions that are deferred by MOV SS or POP SS, as demonstrated ...

OracleVM 3.4 : xen (OVMSA-2017-0007)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - BUILDINFO: xen commit=9f3030e391274b89deb80c86a6343dac473916b3 - BUILDINFO: QEMU upstream commit=f663d3dd4e968756d33e29cb2c2c956cabbdd4ca - BUILDINFO: QEMU traditional...

xen-kernel -- x86 PV guests may be able to mask interrupts

The Xen Project reports: Certain PV guest kernel operations page table writes in particular need emulation, and use Xen's general x86 instruction emulator. This allows a malicious guest kernel which asynchronously modifies its instruction stream to effect the clearing of EFLAGS.IF from the state...