Linux kernel Privilege Escalation

The vulnerability of the Linux operating system’s kernel is related to improperly applied security restrictions in the KVM AMD code, which is used to support embedded virtualization within SVM. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow attackers to increase their privileges...

AlmaLinux 8 : kernel (ALSA-2021:3548)

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2021:3548 advisory. - A flaw was found in the KVM's AMD code for supporting SVM nested virtualization. The flaw occurs when processing the VMCB virtual machine control block provided ...

USN-5073-2 linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15 vulnerabilities

Maxim Levitsky and Paolo Bonzini discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation for AMD processors in the Linux kernel allowed a guest VM to disable restrictions on VMLOAD/VMSAVE in a nested guest. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to read or write portions of the host's physical memory...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kvm on SL5.x x86_64 (20151022)

A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in the way QEMU's NE2000 NIC emulation implementation handled certain packets received over the network. A privileged user inside a guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU instance denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host...