ACK: [SRU][Trusty][Artful][PATCH 0/1] Fix for CVE-2017-1000407

[Khaled Elmously]

On 2018-01-26 17:57:56 , Kleber Sacilotto de Souza wrote:
> https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2017-1000407.html
> 
> Clean cherry-pick for Artful, a simple backport for Trusty since the bit was
> cleared originally in a different function. The fix for Xenial is queued as
> part of upstream stable update to 4.4.106.
> 
> Andrew Honig (1):
>   KVM: VMX: remove I/O port 0x80 bypass on Intel hosts
> 
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 5 -----
>  1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
>

Wouldn't these patches complicate the stable-update pull? Do the stable updates need to be redone now after these fixes?

Acked-by: Khalid Elmously <khalid.elmously at canonical.com>