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Unscored USN-2801-1 1 CVE

linux vulnerability

Published Nov 10, 2015 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Summary

Ben Serebrin discovered that the KVM hypervisor implementation in the Linux
kernel did not properly catch Alignment Check exceptions. An attacker in a
guest virtual machine could use this to cause a denial of service (system
crash) in the host OS.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS linux 3.13.0-68.111

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5307