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linux — security advisory
A flaw was discovered in the way that the KVM hypervisor handled instruction emulation for an L2 guest when nested virtualisation is enabled. Under some circumstances, an L2 guest may trick the L0 guest into accessing sensitive L1 resources that should be inaccessible to the L2 guest.
- Products
- linux
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 5.5.13-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-2732
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 12:50 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A flaw was discovered in the way that the KVM hypervisor handled instruction emulation for an L2 guest when nested virtualisation is enabled. Under some circumstances, an L2 guest may trick the L0 guest into accessing sensitive L1 resources that should be inaccessible to the L2 guest.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-2732
linux
Fixed versions: 5.5.13-1
linux
Fixed versions: 5.5.13-1
linux
Fixed versions: 5.5.13-1
Complete source record
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