Ubuntu Security Update USN-7850-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

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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. (CVE-2025-40300) A security issues was discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystem: - USB sound devices; (CVE-2024-53150)

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