Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in spice affects IBM SmartCloud Provisioning for IBM Software Virtual Appliance (CVE-2015-5261, CVE-2015-5260)

Summary Vulnerability spice affects IBM SmartCloud Provisioning for IBM Software Virtual Appliance CVE-2015-5261, CVE-2015-5260. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2015-5261 DESCRIPTION: Red Hat spice is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow. By sending specially crafted QXL command, a local...

Security Bulletin: IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator - Nova compute DoS through ephemeral disk backing files (CVE-2013-6437)

Summary By repeatedly creating snapshots, changing the ostype to a new random value, and spawning new instances from the snapshot and quickly deleting those instances, an authenticated user might generate lots of different ephemeral disk backing files. These files than fill up compute node disks,...

Security Bulletin: Potential Nova denial of service through compressed disk images (CVE-2013-4463, CVE-2013-4469)

Summary By using malicious compressed qcow2 disk images, an authenticated user might consume large amounts of disk space for each image. This scenario can potentially result in a Denial of Service attack on Nova compute nodes CVE-2013-4463. In the non-default case where usecowimages=False and...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in qemu-kvm affects IBM SmartCloud Provisioning for IBM Software Virtual Appliance

Summary Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in qemu-kvm affects IBM SmartCloud Provisioning for IBM Software Virtual Appliance CVE-2015-5165. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2015-5165 DESCRIPTION: Xen could allow a local attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the improper validation of...

OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2018-0228) (Spectre)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - netlink: add a start callback for starting a netlink dump Tom Herbert Orabug: 27169581 CVE-2017-16939 - ipsec: Fix aborted xfrm policy dump crash Herbert Xu Orabug: 27169581 CVE-2017-16939 - net/rds:...

Amazon Linux AMI : qemu-kvm (ALAS-2018-1034) (Spectre)

An out-of-bounds read access issue was found in the VGA display emulator built into the Quick emulator QEMU. It could occur while reading VGA memory to update graphics display. A privileged user/process inside guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host resulting in denial of...

Amazon Linux 2 : qemu-kvm (ALAS-2018-1034) (Spectre)

An out-of-bounds read access issue was found in the VGA display emulator built into the Quick emulator QEMU. It could occur while reading VGA memory to update graphics display. A privileged user/process inside guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host resulting in denial of...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3676-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

SUSE-SU-2018:1644-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 8 for SLE 12 SP3)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.114-9411 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2017-13166: An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the kernel v4l2 video driver was fixed. bsc1085447. - CVE-2018-8897: A statement in the System Programming Guide of the Intel ...

SUSE-SU-2018:1640-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 7 for SLE 12 SP3)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.103-638 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2017-13166: An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the kernel v4l2 video driver was fixed. bsc1085447. - CVE-2018-8897: A statement in the System Programming Guide of the Intel 6...

SUSE-SU-2018:1642-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 2 for SLE 12 SP3)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.82-66 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: - CVE-2017-13166: An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the kernel v4l2 video driver was fixed. bsc1085447. - CVE-2018-8897: A statement in the System Programming Guide of the Intel 64...

openSUSE Security Update : qemu (openSUSE-2018-603) (Spectre)

This update for qemu fixes the following issues : This security issue was fixed : - CVE-2018-3639: Spectre v4 vulnerability mitigation support for KVM guests bsc1092885. Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of...

Security update for qemu (important)

This update for qemu fixes the following issues: This security issue was fixed: - CVE-2018-3639: Spectre v4 vulnerability mitigation support for KVM guests bsc1092885. Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of al...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:1545-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.74-9238 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-13166: An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the kernel v4l2 video driver was fixed. bsc1085447. - CVE-2018-8897: A statement in the System Programming Guide of the Intel ...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:1524-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.74-9232 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-13166: An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the kernel v4l2 video driver was fixed. bsc1085447. - CVE-2018-8897: A statement in the System Programming Guide of the Intel ...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:1505-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.74-9229 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-13166: An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the kernel v4l2 video driver was fixed. bsc1085447. - CVE-2018-8897: A statement in the System Programming Guide of the Intel ...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:1534-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.74-9235 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-13166: An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the kernel v4l2 video driver was fixed. bsc1085447. - CVE-2018-8897: A statement in the System Programming Guide of the Intel ...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:1516-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.90-9250 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-13166: An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the kernel v4l2 video driver was fixed. bsc1085447. - CVE-2018-8897: A statement in the System Programming Guide of the Intel ...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:1522-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.59-9220 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-13166: An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the kernel v4l2 video driver was fixed. bsc1085447. - CVE-2018-8897: A statement in the System Programming Guide of the Intel ...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:1548-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.90-9245 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-13166: An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the kernel v4l2 video driver was fixed. bsc1085447. - CVE-2018-8897: A statement in the System Programming Guide of the Intel ...