USN-7934-1: Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that improper initialization of CPU cache memory could allow a local attacker with hypervisor access to overwrite SEV-SNP guest memory resulting in loss of data integrity. (CVE-2024-36331)

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; - S390 architecture; - x86 architecture; - Cryptographic API; - Network block device driver; - Character device driver; - Clock framework and drivers; - Data acquisition framework and drivers; - Hardware crypto device drivers; - Device frequency scaling framework; - DMA engine subsystem; - EDAC drivers; - GPU drivers; - HID subsystem; - Hardware monitoring drivers; - I2C subsystem; - IIO subsystem; - IIO ADC drivers; - InfiniBand drivers; - Input Device core drivers; - Multiple devices driver; - Media drivers; - Network drivers; - Mellanox network drivers; - PCI subsystem; - PHY drivers; - Pin controllers subsystem; - x86 platform drivers; - Power supply drivers; - Powercap sysfs driver; - Voltage and Current Regulator drivers; - S/390 drivers; - ASPEED SoC drivers; - SPI subsystem; - small TFT LCD display modules; - Media staging drivers; - USB Gadget drivers; - vDPA drivers; - VFIO drivers; - Framebuffer layer; - Xen hypervisor drivers; - BTRFS file system; - Ceph distributed file system; - EFI Variable file system; - File systems infrastructure; - F2FS file system; - GFS2 file system; - Network file systems library; - Network file system (NFS) client; - Network file system (NFS) server daemon; - NILFS2 file system; - NTFS3 file system; - Proc file system; - SMB network file system; - DRM display driver; - iouring subsystem; - Internal shared memory driver; - padata parallel execution mechanism; - Networking subsytem; - Bluetooth subsystem; - Netfilter; - UDP network protocol; - Tracing infrastructure; - BPF subsystem; - Perf events; - Padata parallel execution mechanism; - Codetag library; - KASAN memory debugging framework; - Memory management; - 802.1Q VLAN protocol; - Appletalk network protocol; - Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) subsystem; - Networking core; - IPv4 networking; - IPv6 networking; - MAC80211 subsystem; - Multipath TCP; - Netlink; - RxRPC session sockets; - Network traffic control; - SMC sockets; - Sun RPC protocol; - TIPC protocol; - TLS protocol; - VMware vSockets driver; - Wireless networking; - XFRM subsystem; - ADI SoundPort AD1816A based soundcard drivers; - MediaTek ASoC drivers; - SOF drivers; - USB sound devices; - KVM subsystem; (CVE-2025-38335, CVE-2025-38349, CVE-2025-38351, CVE-2025-38437, CVE-2025-38438, CVE-2025-38439, CVE-2025-38440, CVE-2025-38441, CVE-2025-38443, CVE-2025-38444, CVE-2025-38445, CVE-2025-38446, CVE-2025-38448, CVE-2025-38449, CVE-2025-38450, CVE-2025-38451, CVE-2025-38452, CVE-2025-38453, CVE-2025-38454, CVE-2025-38455, CVE-2025-38456, CVE-2025-38457, CVE-2025-38458, CVE-2025-38459, CVE-2025-38460, CVE-2025-38461, CVE-2025-38462, CVE-2025-38463, CVE-2025-38464, CVE-2025-38465, CVE-2025-38466, CVE-2025-38467, CVE-2025-38468, CVE-2025-38469, CVE-2025-38470, CVE-2025-38471, CVE-2025-38472, CVE-2025-38473, CVE-2025-38474, CVE-2025-38475, CVE-2025-38476, CVE-2025-38478, CVE-2025-38480, CVE-2025-38481, CVE-2025-38482, CVE-2025-38483, CVE-2025-38484, CVE-2025-38485, CVE-2025-38487, CVE-2025-38488, CVE-2025-38489, CVE-2025-38490, CVE-2025-38491, CVE-2025-38492, CVE-2025-38493, CVE-2025-38494, CVE-2025-38495, CVE-2025-38496, CVE-2025-38497, CVE-2025-38501, CVE-2025-38503, CVE-2025-38505, CVE-2025-38506, CVE-2025-38507, CVE-2025-38508, CVE-2025-38509, CVE-2025-38510, CVE-2025-38511, CVE-2025-38512, CVE-2025-38513, CVE-2025-38514, CVE-2025-38515, CVE-2025-38516, CVE-2025-38517, CVE-2025-38520, CVE-2025-38521, CVE-2025-38524, CVE-2025-38525, CVE-2025-38526, CVE-2025-38527, CVE-2025-38528, CVE-2025-38529, CVE-2025-38530, CVE-2025-38531, CVE-2025-38532, CVE-2025-38533, CVE-2025-38534, CVE-2025-38535, CVE-2025-38537, CVE-2025-38538, CVE-2025-38539, CVE-2025-38540, CVE-2025-38542, CVE-2025-38543, CVE-2025-38544, CVE-2025-38545, CVE-2025-38546, CVE-2025-38547, CVE-2025-38548, CVE-2025-38549, CVE-2025-38550, CVE-2025-38551, CVE-2025-38552, CVE-2025-38553, CVE-2025-38555, CVE-2025-38556, CVE-2025-38557, CVE-2025-38558, CVE-2025-38559, CVE-2025-38560, CVE-2025-38561, CVE-2025-38562, CVE-2025-38563, CVE-2025-38565, CVE-2025-38566, CVE-2025-38567, CVE-2025-38568, CVE-2025-38569, CVE-2025-38570, CVE-2025-38571, CVE-2025-38572, CVE-2025-38573, CVE-2025-38574, CVE-2025-38576, CVE-2025-38577, CVE-2025-38578, CVE-2025-38579, CVE-2025-38581, CVE-2025-38582, CVE-2025-38583, CVE-2025-38584, CVE-2025-38585, CVE-2025-38586, CVE-2025-38587, CVE-2025-38588, CVE-2025-38589, CVE-2025-38590, CVE-2025-38593, CVE-2025-38595, CVE-2025-38601, CVE-2025-38602, CVE-2025-38604, CVE-2025-38605, CVE-2025-38606, CVE-2025-38608, CVE-2025-38609, CVE-2025-38610, CVE-2025-38612, CVE-2025-38615, CVE-2025-38616, CVE-2025-38619, CVE-2025-38622, CVE-2025-38623, CVE-2025-38624, CVE-2025-38625, CVE-2025-38626, CVE-2025-38628, CVE-2025-38629, CVE-2025-38630, CVE-2025-38631, CVE-2025-38632, CVE-2025-38634, CVE-2025-38635, CVE-2025-38639, CVE-2025-38640, CVE-2025-38642, CVE-2025-38643, CVE-2025-38644, CVE-2025-38645, CVE-2025-38646, CVE-2025-38648, CVE-2025-38649, CVE-2025-38650, CVE-2025-38652, CVE-2025-38653, CVE-2025-38654, CVE-2025-38655, CVE-2025-38659, CVE-2025-38660, CVE-2025-38662, CVE-2025-38663, CVE-2025-38664, CVE-2025-38665, CVE-2025-38666, CVE-2025-38668, CVE-2025-38670, CVE-2025-38671, CVE-2025-38675, CVE-2025-38678, CVE-2025-39725, CVE-2025-39726, CVE-2025-39727, CVE-2025-39730, CVE-2025-39731, CVE-2025-39732, CVE-2025-39734, CVE-2025-39809, CVE-2025-39818, CVE-2025-39946, CVE-2025-39964, CVE-2025-39993, CVE-2025-40018, CVE-2025-40157)