APPLIED: [SRU][T][PATCH 0/1] CVE-2017-7518 - Incorrect debug exception emulation

[Khaled Elmously]

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On 2018-07-09 21:16:32 , Tyler Hicks wrote:
> https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2017/CVE-2017-7518.html
> 
>  Andy Lutomirski discovered that the KVM implementation in the Linux kernel
>  was vulnerable to a debug exception error when single-stepping through a
>  syscall. A local attacker in a non-Linux guest vm could possibly use this
>  to gain administrative privileges in the guest vm.
> 
> This is a cherry-picked patch from the 3.16 linux-stable tree.
> 
> Tyler
> 
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