CVE-2019-3016
It was discovered that the KVM implementation for x86 did not
always perform TLB flushes when needed, if the paravirtualised
TLB flush feature was enabled. This could lead to disclosure of
sensitive information within a guest VM.
CVE-2019-19462
The syzkaller tool found a missing error check in the 'relay'
library used to implement various files under debugfs. A local
user permitted to access debugfs could use this to cause a denial
of service (crash) or possibly for privilege escalation.
CVE-2020-0543
Researchers at VU Amsterdam discovered that on some Intel CPUs
supporting the RDRAND and RDSEED instructions, part of a random
value generated by these instructions may be used in a later
speculative execution on any core of the same physical CPU.
Depending on how these instructions are used by applications, a
local user or VM guest could use this to obtain sensitive
information such as cryptographic keys from other users or VMs.
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