Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm security update

An update for qemu-kvm 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...

Qemu: nbd: segmentation fault due to client non-negotiation

Quick Emulator QEMU built with Network Block Device NBD Server support was vulnerable to a null-pointer dereference issue. The flaw could occur when releasing a client that was not initialized due to failed negotiation. A remote user or process could exploit this flaw to crash the qemu-nbd server...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20170321)

Security Fixes : - It was discovered that a remote attacker could leverage the generation of IPv6 atomic fragments to trigger the use of fragmentation in an arbitrary IPv6 flow in scenarios in which actual fragmentation of packets is not needed and could subsequently perform any type of a...

Kernel security update: new kernel 2.6.32-042stab123.1, Virtuozzo 6.0 Update 12 Hotfix 7 (6.0.12-)

This update provides a new Virtuozzo 6.0 kernel 2.6.32-042stab123.1 as well as internal stability bug fixes. The new kernel is based on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 kernel 2.6.32-696.el6 and provides security fixes. Vulnerability id: CVE-2017-6214 A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's handli...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2017:0817)

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

USN-3207-1 linux vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the block device layer of the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly gain administrative privileges. CVE-2016-7910 Dmitry Vyukov discovered a use-after-free vulnerability ...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3207-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3207-1 advisory. It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the block device layer of the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a...

QEMU 'nbd/client.c' Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

QEMU aka Quick Emulator is a suite of analog processor software developed by French programmer Fabrice Bellard. QEMU suffers from a stack buffer overflow vulnerability that arises from the program's failure to perform sufficient boundary checks on user-supplied data before copying it to an...

CVE-2017-2630

A stack buffer overflow flaw was found in the Quick Emulator QEMU built with the Network Block Device NBD client support. The flaw could occur while processing server's response to a 'NBDOPTLIST' request. A malicious NBD server could use this issue to crash a remote NBD client resulting in DoS or...

libvirt: Ceph id/key leaked in the process list

It was found that the libvirt daemon, when using RBD RADOS Block Device, leaked private credentials to the process list. A local attacker could use this flaw to perform certain privileged operations within the cluster...

Measure storage performance on XenServer using dd ?

dd is a native linux command also available on XenServer that can be used to measure the performance of a block device like /dev/sda at a block level. We can use this command to troubleshoot storage performance issues within the Host as well as the guest while clubbing it with other tools like...

Qemu: block: iscsi: buffer overflow in iscsi_aio_ioctl

Quick EmulatorQEMU built with the Block driver for iSCSI images support virtio-blk is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow issue. The flaw could occur while processing iSCSI asynchronous I/O ioctl2 calls. A user inside a guest could exploit this flaw to crash the QEMU process resulting in...

Vulnerabilities in the Debian GNU/Linux operating system that allow a remote attacker to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information

The multiple vulnerabilities in the nbd package of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system may lead to breaches of the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information. These vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely...

openSUSE Security Update : systemd (openSUSE-2016-488)

This update for systemd fixes several issues : e5e362a udev: exclude MD from block device ownership event locking 8839413 udev: really exclude device-mapper from block device ownership event locking 66782e6 udev: exclude device-mapper from block device ownership event locking bsc972727 1386f57...

CentOS 7 : kernel (CESA-2016:0185)

Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, a...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2016:0103)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2016:0103 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. It was found that the x86 ISA Instruction Set...

SUSE: Security Advisory for kernel (SUSE-SU-2015:0529-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: nbd-3.11-1.fc22

Tools for the Linux Kernel's network block device, allowing you to use remote block devices over a TCP/IP network...

[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: nbd-3.11-1.fc21

Tools for the Linux Kernel's network block device, allowing you to use remote block devices over a TCP/IP network...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-5166

Use-after-free vulnerability in QEMU in Xen 4.5.x and earlier does not completely unplug emulated block devices, which allows local HVM guest users to gain privileges by unplugging a block device twice...