USN-4301-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
USN-4301-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities linux-aws-5.0, linux-gcp, linux-gke-5.0, linux-oracle-5.0 vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel. Software Description linux-aws-5.0 – Linux kernel for Amazon Web Services (AWS) systems linux-gcp – Linux kernel for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) systems linux-gke-5.0 – Linux kernel for Google Container Engine (GKE) systems linux-oracle-5.0 – Linux kernel for Oracle Cloud systems Details It was discovered that the KVM implementation in the Linux kernel, when paravirtual TLB flushes are enabled in guests, the hypervisor in some situations could miss deferred TLB flushes or otherwise mishandle them. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to expose sensitive information (read memory from another guest VM). (CVE-2019-3016) Paulo Bonzini discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel could [ more… ]