DEBIAN-CVE-2017-7518

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel before version 4.12 in the way the KVM module processed the trap flagTF bit in EFLAGS during emulation of the syscall instruction, which leads to a debug exceptionDB being raised in the guest stack. A user/process inside a guest could use this flaw to...

USN-2515-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in the Kernel Virtual Machine's KVM emulation of the SYSTENTER instruction when the guest OS does not initialize the SYSENTER MSRs. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service of the guest OS crash or potentially gain privileges on the guest OS...