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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2515-2

Posted Mar 5, 2015

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 2515-2 - USN-2515-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. There was an unrelated regression in the use of the virtual counter (CNTVCT) on arm64 architectures. This update fixes the problem. A flaw was discovered in the Kernel Virtual Machine's (KVM) emulation of the SYSTENTER instruction when the guest OS does not initialize the SYSENTER MSRs. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service of the guest OS (crash) or potentially gain privileges on the guest OS. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service, kernel, vulnerability

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2014-8133, CVE-2014-8160, CVE-2014-8559, CVE-2014-8989, CVE-2014-9419, CVE-2014-9420, CVE-2014-9428, CVE-2014-9529, CVE-2014-9584, CVE-2014-9585, CVE-2014-9683, CVE-2015-0239

SHA-256 | 53baab56a79fe3971010064b4cef9abd6fb13fe2a27a242cc2c2dba794d3df3a

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