• Six stable kernels patching the VMScape Spectre variant

    From LWN.net@1337:1/100 to All on Thursday, September 11, 2025 18:00:08
    Six stable kernels patching the VMScape Spectre variant

    Date:
    Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:46:29 +0000

    Description:
    The VMScape vulnerability is a Spectre variant that " allows a malicious KVM guest to
    leak sensitive information such as encryption/decryption keys from a
    userspace hypervisor such as QEMU ". Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced
    the 6.16.7 , 6.12.47 , 6.6.106 , 6.1.152 , 5.15.193 , and 5.10.244 stable kernels, which add a
    mitigation for the hardware bug.

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    Link to news story:
    https://lwn.net/Articles/1037788/


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