========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7874-2 November 19, 2025
linux-fips, linux-aws-fips, linux-gcp-fips vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Summary: Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel. Software Description: - linux-aws-fips: Linux kernel for Amazon Web Services (AWS) systems with FIPS - linux-fips: Linux kernel with FIPS- linux-gcp-fips: Linux kernel for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) systems with FIPS
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:
- HSI subsystem;
- I3C subsystem;
- SMB network file system;
- Padata parallel execution mechanism;
- Timer subsystem;
- Networking core;
(CVE-2023-52854, CVE-2024-35867, CVE-2024-50061, CVE-2024-56664,
CVE-2025-21727, CVE-2025-37838, CVE-2025-38352)
Update instructions:
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
linux-image-5.4.0-1126-fips 5.4.0-1126.136
Available with Ubuntu Pro
linux-image-5.4.0-1152-aws-fips 5.4.0-1152.162+fips1
Available with Ubuntu Pro
linux-image-5.4.0-1155-gcp-fips 5.4.0-1155.164+fips1
Available with Ubuntu Pro
linux-image-aws-fips 5.4.0.1152.99
Available with Ubuntu Pro
linux-image-aws-fips-5.4 5.4.0.1152.99
Available with Ubuntu Pro
linux-image-fips 5.4.0.1126.123
Available with Ubuntu Pro
linux-image-fips-5.4 5.4.0.1126.123
Available with Ubuntu Pro
linux-image-gcp-fips 5.4.0.1155.97
Available with Ubuntu Pro
linux-image-gcp-fips-5.4 5.4.0.1155.97
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-7874-2
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7874-1
CVE-2023-52854, CVE-2024-35867, CVE-2024-50061, CVE-2024-56664,
CVE-2025-21727, CVE-2025-37838, CVE-2025-38352, CVE-2025-40300
Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-aws-fips/5.4.0-1152.162+fips1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-fips/5.4.0-1126.136
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-gcp-fips/5.4.0-1155.164+fips1
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