PT-2016-1697

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Windows Hyper-V versions in Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, and Windows 10 Description The issue is related to a lack of protection for sensitive data in the Hyper-V hardware virtualization system, allowing a local attacker to...

MS16-045: Security Update for Windows Hyper-V (3143118)

The remote Windows host is missing a security update. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - An arbitrary code execution vulnerability exists in Hyper-V due to a failure to properly validate input from an authenticated user on a guest operating system. An attacker can exploit...

VMware ESXi Tools Guest OS Privilege Escalation (VMSA-2014-0005)

The remote VMware ESXi host is affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability due to a NULL pointer dereference flaw in VMware Tools running on Microsoft Windows 8.1. An attacker on an adjacent network can exploit this issue to gain elevated privileges within the guest operating system or else...

CVE-2015-5307

The KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 4.2.6, and Xen 4.3.x through 4.6.x, allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS panic or hang by triggering many AC aka Alignment Check exceptions, related to svm.c and vmx.c...

CVE-2007-6227

QEMU 0.9.0 allows local users of a Windows XP SP2 guest operating system to overwrite the TranslationBlock codegenbuffer buffer, and probably have unspecified other impacts related to an "overflow," via certain Windows executable programs, as demonstrated by qemu-dos.com...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5261

Heap-based buffer overflow in SPICE before 0.12.6 allows guest OS users to read and write to arbitrary memory locations on the host via guest QXL commands related to surface creation...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5260

Heap-based buffer overflow in SPICE before 0.12.6 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service heap-based memory corruption and QEMU-KVM crash or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host via QXL commands related to the surfaceid parameter...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-3214

The pitioportread in i8254.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.33 and QEMU before 2.3.1 does not distinguish between read lengths and write lengths, which might allow guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS by triggering use of an invalid index...

The vulnerability of the VMware Workstation hypervisor allows a attacker to cause a failure in the guest or host operating system.

The vulnerability of VMware Workstation exists due to insufficient verification of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause a failure in the maintenance of 32-bit or 64-bit host operating systems using a specially crafted RPC request...

PT-2015-4876

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to the fixed version Description The issue allows guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from uninitialized locations in host OS kernel memory. This is due to a problem in the drivers/xen/usbback/usbback.c...

PT-2015-4535 · Linux +4 · Linux Kernel +4

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 3.18.5 Description: The issue allows guest OS users to gain guest OS privileges or cause a denial of service guest OS crash by triggering use of a 16-bit code segment for emulation of a SYSENTER instruction,...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-8369

The kvmiommumappages function in virt/kvm/iommu.c in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 miscalculates the number of pages during the handling of a mapping failure, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS page unpinning or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3645

arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.12 does not have an exit handler for the INVEPT instruction, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service guest OS crash via a crafted application...

Linux Kernel 2.6.x KVM 'pit_ioport_read()' Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38038/info The Linux kernel is prone to a local denial-of-service vulnerability that affects the Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM. Attackers with local access to a guest operating system can exploit this issue to crash th...

kernel: vhost-net: insufficiency in handling of big packets in handle_rx()

drivers/vhost/net.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.10, when mergeable buffers are disabled, does not properly validate packet lengths, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service memory corruption and host OS crash or possibly gain privileges on the host OS via crafted packets,...

VMSA-2014-0005: VMware Workstation, Player, Fusion, and ESXi patches address a guest privilege escalation

VMware Workstation, Player, Fusion, and ESXi patches address a vulnerability in VMware Tools which could result in a privilege escalation on Microsoft Windows 8.1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbVMSA-2014-0005.nasl 6995 2017-08-23 11:52:03Z teissa $ VMSA-2014-0005: VMware Workstation, Player,...

NEW VMSA-2014-0005 - VMware Workstation, Player, Fusion, and ESXi patches address a guest privilege escalation

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- VMware Security Advisory Advisory ID: VMSA-2014-0005 Synopsis: VMware Workstation, Player, Fusion, and ESXi patches address a guest privilege escalation Issue date: 2014-05-29...

VMSA-2014-0005 : VMware Workstation, Player, Fusion, and ESXi patches address a guest privilege escalation

a. Guest privilege escalation in VMware Tools A kernel NULL dereference vulnerability was found in VMware Tools running on Microsoft Windows 8.1. Successful exploitation of this issue could lead to an escalation of privilege in the guest operating system. VMware would like to thank Tavis Ormandy...

kernel: vhost-net: insufficiency in handling of big packets in handle_rx()

drivers/vhost/net.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13.10, when mergeable buffers are disabled, does not properly validate packet lengths, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service memory corruption and host OS crash or possibly gain privileges on the host OS via crafted packets,...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-0981

VBox/GuestHost/OpenGL/util/net.c in Oracle VirtualBox before 3.2.22, 4.0.x before 4.0.24, 4.1.x before 4.1.32, 4.2.x before 4.2.24, and 4.3.x before 4.3.8, when using 3D Acceleration allows local guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the Chromium server via crafted Chromium network pointer ...