Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities (USN-3820-3)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3820-3 advisory. Felix Wilhelm discovered that the Xen netback driver in the Linux kernel did not properly perform input validation in some situations. An attacker could...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3822-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3822-1 advisory. Jim Mattson discovered that the KVM implementation in the Linux kernel mismanages the BP and OF exceptions. A local attacker in a guest virtual machine...

USN-3820-3: Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities

Felix Wilhelm discovered that the Xen netback driver in the Linux kernel did not properly perform input validation in some situations. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2018-15471 It was discovered that the generic SCSI...