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kernel: x86/bhi: Avoid warning in #DB handler due to BHI mitigation
A denial of service vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel. When BHI mitigation is enabled, if SYSENTER is invoked with the TF flag set, then entrySYSENTERcompat uses CLEARBRANCHHISTORY and calls the clearbhbloop before the TF flag is cleared. This causes the DB handler excdebugkernel to iss...
SUSE CVE-2015-0239
The emsysenter function in arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c in the Linux kernel before 3.18.5, when the guest OS lacks SYSENTER MSR initialization, allows guest OS users to gain guest OS privileges or cause a denial of service guest OS crash by triggering use of a 16-bit code segment for emulation of a...