CVE-2021-35517

When reading a specially crafted TAR archive, Compress can be made to allocate large amounts of memory that finally leads to an out of memory error even for very small inputs. This could be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress' tar package...

virt:ol and virt-devel:rhel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

libvirt 6.0.0-35.0.1 - Set SOURCEDATEEPOCH from changelog Orabug: 32019554 - Add runtime deps for pkg librbd1 = 1:10.2.5 Keshav Sharma - Disable parallel builds Karl Heubaum libvirt-dbus 1.3.0 - Resolves: bz1810193 Upgrade components in virt:rhel module:stream for RHEL-8.3 release libvirt-python...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: virt:8.2 and virt-devel:8.2 security update

An update for the virt:8.2 and virt-devel:8.2 modules is now available for Advanced Virtualization for RHEL 8.2.1. 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...

RHEL 8 : virt:8.2 and virt-devel:8.2 (RHSA-2021:0743)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2021:0743 advisory. The Advanced Virtualization module provides the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM in environments managed by Red Hat...

virt:ol and virt-devel:rhel security update

qemu-kvm 4.2.0-34.el83.4 - kvm-virtiofsd-extract-lodoopen-from-loopen.patch bz1919109 - kvm-virtiofsd-optionally-return-inode-pointer-from-lodo.patch bz1919109 - kvm-virtiofsd-prevent-opening-of-special-files-CVE-2020-.patch bz1919109 - Resolves: bz1919109 CVE-2020-35517 virt:rhel/qemu-kvm: QEMU:...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel security update

An update for the virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel modules is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. 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...

Important: virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel security update

Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM offers a full virtualization solution for Linux on numerous hardware platforms. The virt:rhel module contains packages which provide user-space components used to run virtual machines using KVM. The packages also provide APIs for managing and interacting with the...

ALSA-2021:0711 Important: virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel security update

Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM offers a full virtualization solution for Linux on numerous hardware platforms. The virt:rhel module contains packages which provide user-space components used to run virtual machines using KVM. The packages also provide APIs for managing and interacting with the...

RLSA-2021:0711 Important: virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel security update

Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM offers a full virtualization solution for Linux on numerous hardware platforms. The virt:Rocky Linux module contains packages which provide user-space components used to run virtual machines using KVM. The packages also provide APIs for managing and interacting wi...

CentOS 8 : virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel (CESA-2021:0711)

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CESA-2021:0711 advisory. - QEMU: virtiofsd: potential privileged host device access from guest CVE-2020-35517 Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only ...

CVE-2020-35517

A flaw was found in qemu. A host privilege escalation issue was found in the virtio-fs shared file system daemon where a privileged guest user is able to create a device special file in the shared directory and use it to r/w access host devices...

CVE-2020-35517

CVE-2020-35517 affects the QEMU virtiofsd (virtio-fs shared file system daemon). A privileged guest user can create a device special file in the shared directory and use it to read/write host devices, enabling host access escalation. The issue is documented across multiple advisories ( MiracleLin...