CVE-2020-8832

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4302-1

Posted Mar 17, 2020

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 4302-1 - Paulo Bonzini discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel could improperly let a nested guest access the resources of a parent guest in certain situations. An attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. Gregory Herrero discovered that the fix for CVE-2019-14615 to address the Linux kernel not properly clearing data structures on context switches for certain Intel graphics processors was incomplete. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, kernel, local

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2019-15217, CVE-2019-19046, CVE-2019-19051, CVE-2019-19056, CVE-2019-19058, CVE-2019-19066, CVE-2019-19068, CVE-2020-2732, CVE-2020-8832

SHA-256 | 3f65e5ffbc3857537bf6869a1491356bedce6b14cb08f5e1b25c6d6d2862ecd3

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