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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