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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS USN-7862-3 Important Info Exposure CVE-2025-40300

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Calendar Grey November 13, 2025
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
A new advisory for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS addresses an important security issue exposing sensitive information.
The system could be made to expose sensitive information.

Summary

The system could be made to expose sensitive information.

Software Description:

- linux-xilinx-zynqmp: Linux kernel for Xilinx ZynqMP processors

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.

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
   linux-image-5.15.0-1060-xilinx-zynqmp  5.15.0-1060.64
   linux-image-xilinx-zynqmp       5.15.0.1060.63
   linux-image-xilinx-zynqmp-5.15  5.15.0.1060.63

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-7862-3

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7862-2

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7862-1

CVE-2025-40300

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7862-3

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