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[0/1,SRU,C] CVE-2018-16880 - vhost_net out-of-bounds write

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Tyler Hicks Feb. 4, 2019, 8:22 p.m. UTC 
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2018/CVE-2018-16880.html

 A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's handle_rx() function in the [vhost_net]
 driver. A malicious virtual guest, under specific conditions, can trigger an
 out-of-bounds write in a kmalloc-8 slab on a virtual host which may lead to a
 kernel memory corruption and a system panic. Due to the nature of the flaw,
 privilege escalation cannot be fully ruled out. Versions from v4.16 and newer
 are vulnerable.

This is essentially a clean cherry pick to Cosmic. A macro name is different in
Cosmic than it is in current upstream so that had to be adjusted. I've smoke
tested this patch by boot testing in a VM and starting a nested KVM instance.

Tyler