USN-4440-1: linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the network block device nbd implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly check for error conditions in some situations. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2019-16089 It was discovered that the kernel-user space relay...

CVE-2014-3690

CVE-2014-3690 affects arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the Linux kernel’s KVM subsystem on Intel, where the CR4 control register value may not be preserved across VM entries. The vendor-provided details in connected Nessus advisories describe a local attacker with access to /dev/kvm who can kill arbitrary p...