USN-3982-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities
USN-3982-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities linux-lts-xenial vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 14.04 ESM Summary Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel. Software Description linux-lts-xenial – Linux hardware enablement kernel from Xenial for Trusty Details USN-3982-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement (HWE) kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Ke Sun, Henrique Kawakami, Kekai Hu, Rodrigo Branco, Giorgi Maisuradze, Dan Horea Lutas, Andrei Lutas, Volodymyr Pikhur, Stephan van Schaik, Alyssa Milburn, Sebastian Österlund, Pietro Frigo, Kaveh Razavi, Herbert Bos, Cristiano Giuffrida, Moritz Lipp, Michael Schwarz, and Daniel Gruss discovered that memory previously stored in microarchitectural fill buffers of an Intel CPU core may be exposed to a malicious process that is executing on [ more… ]