========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7854-1 October 30, 2025
linux-kvm vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Summary:
Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.
Software Description:
- linux-kvm: Linux kernel for cloud environments
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. (CVE-2025-40300)
Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel.
An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system.
This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems:
- DMA engine subsystem;
- GPU drivers;
- HSI subsystem;
- Ethernet team driver;
- Framebuffer layer;
- BTRFS file system;
- Ext4 file system;
- Network file system (NFS) server daemon;
- Timer subsystem;
- DCCP (Datagram Congestion Control Protocol);
- IPv6 networking;
- NET/ROM layer;
- Packet sockets;
- Network traffic control;
- SCTP protocol;
- VMware vSockets driver;
- USB sound devices;
(CVE-2023-52574, CVE-2023-52650, CVE-2024-35849, CVE-2024-41006,
CVE-2024-49924, CVE-2024-50006, CVE-2024-50299, CVE-2024-53124,
CVE-2024-53150, CVE-2024-56767, CVE-2025-21796, CVE-2025-37785,
CVE-2025-37838, CVE-2025-38352, CVE-2025-38477, CVE-2025-38617,
CVE-2025-38618)
Update instructions:
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
linux-image-4.15.0-1168-kvm 4.15.0-1168.173
Available with Ubuntu Pro
linux-image-kvm 4.15.0.1168.159
Available with Ubuntu Pro
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-7854-1
CVE-2023-52574, CVE-2023-52650, CVE-2024-35849, CVE-2024-41006,
CVE-2024-49924, CVE-2024-50006, CVE-2024-50299, CVE-2024-53124,
CVE-2024-53150, CVE-2024-56767, CVE-2025-21796, CVE-2025-37785,
CVE-2025-37838, CVE-2025-38352, CVE-2025-38477, CVE-2025-38617,
CVE-2025-38618, CVE-2025-40300
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