Package : linux CVE ID : CVE-2018-1087 CVE-2018-8897 Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation or denial of service. CVE-2018-1087 Andy Lutomirski discovered that the KVM implementation did not properly handle #DB exceptions while deferred by MOV SS/POP SS, allowing an unprivileged KVM guest user to crash the guest or potentially escalate their privileges. CVE-2018-8897 Nick Peterson of Everdox Tech LLC discovered that #DB exceptions that are deferred by MOV SS or POP SS are not properly handled, allowing an unprivileged user to crash the kernel and cause a denial of service. For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in 3.16.56-1+deb8u1. This update includes various fixes for regressions from 3.16.56-1 as released in DSA-4187-1 (Cf. #897427, #898067 and #898100). For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in 4.9.88-1+deb9u1. The fix for CVE-2018-1108 applied in DSA-4188-1 is temporarily reverted due to various regression, cf. #897599.