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[USN-2800-1] Linux kernel vulnerability

Severity Medium
CVEs 1
Info Vulnerabilities

The system could be made to crash under certain conditions.

Ben Serebrin discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation in the Linux
kernel did not properly catch Alignment Check exceptions. An attacker in a
guest virtual machine could use this to cause a denial of service (system
crash) in the host OS.

ID
USN-2800-1
Severity
medium
Severity from
CVE-2015-5307
URL
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2800-1
Published
2015-11-10T02:35:07
(8 years ago)
Modified
2015-11-10T02:35:07
(8 years ago)
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