Four Linux kernel vulnerabilities were patched in Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) and five in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr). The common ones are a flaw discovered in Linux kernel’s Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM)’s kvm_apic_has_events function, as well as an issue in the JIT optimization of Linux kernel’s Berkeley Packet Filter, both of which allowing a local attacker to crash the system by causing a denial of service.
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