USN-8801-1: Linux kernel (Azure CVM) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN-8801-1 patches Linux kernel flaws for Azure CVM images, including an Arm TLB invalidation privilege escalation bug.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: agp/amd64: Fix broken error propagation in agp_amd64_probe() A NULL pointer dereference was observed in the AMD64 AGP driver when running in a virtualized environment (e.g. qemu/kvm) without a physical AMD northbridge. The crash occurs in amd64_fetch_size() when attempting to dereference the pointer returned by node_to_amd_nb(0). The root cause of this crash is broken error propagation in agp_amd64_probe(): When no AMD northbridges are found, cache_nbs() correctly returns -ENODEV. However, the probe function erroneously checks the return value against exactly -1, rather than misc member. Fix the issue by correcting the error check in agp_amd64_probe() to abort properly when cache_nbs() returns any negative error code. This prevents the driver from erroneously proceeding without hardware, thereby avoiding the subsequent NULL pointer dereference at its source.
Ubuntu USN-8801-1 patches Linux kernel flaws for Azure CVM images, including an Arm TLB invalidation privilege escalation bug.
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