RedHat Update for spice-server RHSA-2016:1204-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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...

CVE-2016-0749

A memory allocation flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in spice's smartcard interaction, which runs under the QEMU-KVM context on the host. A user connecting to a guest VM using spice could potentially use this flaw to crash the QEMU-KVM process or execute arbitrary code wit...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: spice security update

An update for spice is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the...

RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2016:1033-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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...

CVE-2016-4020

The patchinstruction function in hw/i386/kvmvapic.c in QEMU does not initialize the imm32 variable, which allows local guest OS administrators to obtain sensitive information from host stack memory by accessing the Task Priority Register TPR...

CVE-2016-4020

CVE-2016-4020 : In QEMU, the patch_instruction function in hw/i386/kvmvapic.c fails to initialize imm32, enabling a local guest OS administrator to leak host stack memory via the Task Priority Register (TPR). Several advisories (Debian DLA-574-1, CentOS/CESA-2017:1856, Gentoo GLSA-201609-01) docu...

OracleVM 3.4 : qemu-kvm (OVMSA-2016-0051)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - kvm-Add-vga.h-unmodified-from-Linux.patch bz1331407 - kvm-vga.h-remove-unused-stuff-and-reformat.patch bz1331407 - kvm-vga-use-constants-from-vga.h.patch bz1331407 -...

Oracle Linux 6 : qemu-kvm (ELSA-2016-0997)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2016-0997 advisory. - kvm-vga-fix-banked-access-bounds-checking-CVE-2016-3710.patch bz1331407 - Resolves: bz1331407 EMBARGOED CVE-2016-3710 qemu-kvm: qemu: incorrect banked access...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20160512)

Security Fixes : - A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's ASN.1 DER decoder processed certain certificate files with tags of indefinite length. A local, unprivileged user could use a specially crafted X.509 certificate DER file to crash the system or, potentially, escalate their privilege...

Linux kernel information disclosure vulnerability (CNVD-2016-03352)

The Linux kernel is the kernel used by the operating system Linux, released by the Linux Foundation in the United States. A security vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel's Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM implementation, which stems from the program's failure to limit the variable Memory Type...

CentOS 6 : qemu-kvm (CESA-2016:0997)

An update for qemu-kvm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from...

Ubuntu 15.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2978-1)

David Matlack discovered that the Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict variable Memory Type Range Registers MTRR in KVM guests. A privileged user in a guest VM could use this to cause a denial of service system crash in the host, expose...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2979-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2979-2 advisory. USN-2979-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enableme...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-2979-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2979-1 advisory. David Matlack discovered that the Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict variable Memory Type Rang...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Wily HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2978-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2978-2 advisory. USN-2978-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 15.10. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement H...

USN-2979-2 linux-lts-xenial vulnerabilities

USN-2979-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. David Matlack discovered that the Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM implementation in t...

USN-2979-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-2979-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. David Matlack discovered that the Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM implementation in t...

USN-2979-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

David Matlack discovered that the Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict variable Memory Type Range Registers MTRR in KVM guests. A privileged user in a guest VM could use this to cause a denial of service system crash in the host, expose...

USN-2978-2: Linux kernel (Wily HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-2978-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 15.10. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 15.10 for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. David Matlack discovered that the Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM implementation in the Linux...

USN-2978-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

David Matlack discovered that the Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly restrict variable Memory Type Range Registers MTRR in KVM guests. A privileged user in a guest VM could use this to cause a denial of service system crash in the host, expose...