USN-2841-1

Advisory lineage Upstream: 6 Downstream: 0
Published: 17 Dec 2015, 07:25
Last modified:03 Jun 2026, 14:04

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
minimal
0/100
CVSS Score
No data
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

17 Dec 2015, 07:25
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
03 Jun 2026, 14:04
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

linux vulnerabilities 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)

Affected Systems

  • ubuntu•linux

    < 3.13.0-73.116

References (4)