SUSE CVE-2017-2596

The nestedvmxcheckvmptr function in arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the Linux kernel through 4.9.8 improperly emulates the VMXON instruction, which allows KVM L1 guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS memory consumption by leveraging the mishandling of page references...

CVE-2020-25221

CVE-2020-25221 affects Linux kernel 5.7.x and 5.8.x before 5.8.7. The vulnerability arises in get_gate_page() implemented in mm/gup.c, due to incorrect reference counting of the backing struct page for the vsyscall page, causing a refcount underflow. It can be triggered by any 64-bit process that...