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Ubuntu 22.04: USN-7860-3 Linux-FIPS Important Info Exposure CVE-2025-40300

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Calendar Grey November 7, 2025
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS addresses a critical issue of exposing sensitive info through FIPS kernel updates.
The system could be made to expose sensitive information.

Summary

The system could be made to expose sensitive information.

Software Description:

- linux-aws-fips: Linux kernel for Amazon Web Services (AWS) systems with FIPS

- linux-fips: Linux kernel with FIPS

- linux-gcp-fips: Linux kernel for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) systems with

FIPS

Details:

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.

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Topics Covered

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Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
   linux-image-5.15.0-1096-aws-fips  5.15.0-1096.103+fips1
                                   Available with Ubuntu Pro
   linux-image-5.15.0-1096-gcp-fips  5.15.0-1096.105+fips1
                                   Available with Ubuntu Pro
   linux-image-5.15.0-161-fips     5.15.0-161.171+fips1
                                   Available with Ubuntu Pro
   linux-image-aws-fips            5.15.0.1096.92
                                   Available with Ubuntu Pro
   linux-image-aws-fips-5.15       5.15.0.1096.92
                                   Available with Ubuntu Pro
   linux-image-fips                5.15.0.161.93
                                   Available with Ubuntu Pro
   linux-image-fips-5.15           5.15.0.161.93
                                   Available with Ubuntu Pro
   linux-image-gcp-fips            5.15.0.1096.86
                                   Available with Ubuntu Pro
   linux-image-gcp-fips-5.15       5.15.0.1096.86
                                   Available with Ubuntu Pro

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.

ATTENTION: Due to an unavoidable ABI change the kernel updates have
been given a new version number, which requires you to recompile and
reinstall all third party kernel modules you might have installed.
Unless you manually uninstalled the standard kernel metapackages
(e.g. linux-generic, linux-generic-lts-RELEASE, linux-virtual,
linux-powerpc), a standard system upgrade will automatically perform
this as well.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7860-3

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7860-2

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7860-1

CVE-2025-40300

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7860-3

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Topics Covered

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Package Information

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