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USN-7940-1: Linux kernel (Azure FIPS) vulnerabilities

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: - ARM64 architecture; - PowerPC architecture; - x86 architecture; - Cryptographic API; - ACPI drivers; - Ublk userspace block driver; - Clock framework and drivers; - EDAC drivers; - GPU drivers; - HSI subsystem; - IIO subsystem; - InfiniBand drivers; -…

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