USN-2841-1

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USN-2841-1

Summary: linux vulnerabilities

Details: Jan Beulich discovered that the KVM svm hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly catch Debug exceptions on AMD processors. An attacker in a guest virtual machine could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) in the host OS. (CVE-2015-8104) 郭永刚 discovered that the ppp implementation in the Linux kernel did not ensure that certain slot numbers are valid. A local attacker with the privilege to call ioctl() on /dev/ppp could cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2015-7799) It was discovered that the driver for Digi Neo and ClassicBoard devices did not properly initialize data structures. A local attacker could use this to obtain sensitive information from the kernel. (CVE-2015-7885)

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2841-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7799, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7885, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8104