USN-6014-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Xuewei Feng, Chuanpu Fu, Qi Li, Kun Sun, and Ke Xu discovered that the TCP
implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle IPID assignment.
A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (connection
termination) or inject forged data. (CVE-2020-36516)

Ke Sun, Alyssa Milburn, Henrique Kawakami, Emma Benoit, Igor Chervatyuk,
Lisa Aichele, and Thais Moreira Hamasaki discovered that the Spectre
Variant 2 mitigations for AMD processors on Linux were insufficient in some
situations. A local …

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