[USN-7860-5] Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerability

[Rodrigo Figueiredo Zaiden]

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7860-5
November 10, 2025

linux-hwe-6.14 vulnerability
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Summary:

The system could be made to expose sensitive information.

Software Description:
- linux-hwe-6.14: Linux hardware enablement (HWE) kernel

Details:

Jean-Claude Graf, Sandro Rüegge, Ali Hajiabadi, and Kaveh Razavi discovered
that the Linux kernel contained insufficient branch predictor isolation
between a guest and a userspace hypervisor for certain processors. This
flaw is known as VMSCAPE. An attacker in a guest VM could possibly use this
to expose sensitive information from the host OS.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
   linux-image-6.14.0-35-generic   6.14.0-35.35~24.04.1
   linux-image-6.14.0-35-generic-64k  6.14.0-35.35~24.04.1
   linux-image-generic-6.14        6.14.0-35.35~24.04.1
   linux-image-generic-64k-6.14    6.14.0-35.35~24.04.1
   linux-image-generic-64k-hwe-24.04  6.14.0-35.35~24.04.1
   linux-image-generic-hwe-24.04   6.14.0-35.35~24.04.1
   linux-image-virtual-6.14        6.14.0-35.35~24.04.1
   linux-image-virtual-hwe-24.04   6.14.0-35.35~24.04.1

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.

ATTENTION: Due to an unavoidable ABI change the kernel updates have
been given a new version number, which requires you to recompile and
reinstall all third party kernel modules you might have installed.
Unless you manually uninstalled the standard kernel metapackages
(e.g. linux-generic, linux-generic-lts-RELEASE, linux-virtual,
linux-powerpc), a standard system upgrade will automatically perform
this as well.

References:
   https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7860-5
   https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7860-4
   https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7860-3
   https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7860-2
   https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7860-1
   CVE-2025-40300

Package Information:
   https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-hwe-6.14/6.14.0-35.35~24.04.1

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