Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities (USN-5073-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5073-2 advisory. Maxim Levitsky and Paolo Bonzini discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation for AMD processors in the Linux kernel allowed a guest VM ...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-5073-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5073-1 advisory. Maxim Levitsky and Paolo Bonzini discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation for AMD processors in the Linux kernel allowed a guest VM ...

CVE-2017-8067

drivers/char/virtioconsole.c in the Linux kernel 4.9.x and 4.10.x before 4.10.12 interacts incorrectly with the CONFIGVMAPSTACK option, which allows local users to cause a denial of service system crash or memory corruption or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging use of more than...

CVE-2017-8067

drivers/char/virtioconsole.c in the Linux kernel 4.9.x and 4.10.x before 4.10.12 interacts incorrectly with the CONFIGVMAPSTACK option, which allows local users to cause a denial of service system crash or memory corruption or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging use of more than...