Updated VirtualBox 5.1 packages fix security vulnerability

This update provides the new VirtualBox 5.1 series, currently based on 5.1.2 providing several perfomance enhancements The highlights include: VMM: new APIC and I/O APIC implementations that result in significantly improved performance in certain situations for example with networking VMM: activa...

CVE-2016-6258

A vulnerability was found Xen's MMU emulation for x86 PV guests. A malicious administrator of an x86 PV guest could control some of the page table bits, allowing potential control of memory and code execution in the host. x86 HVM and ARM guests could not exploit this flaw...

x86: Privilege escalation in PV guests

ISSUE DESCRIPTION The PV pagetable code has fast-paths for making updates to pre-existing pagetable entries, to skip expensive re-validation in safe cases e.g. clearing only Access/Dirty bits. The bits considered safe were too broad, and not actually safe. IMPACT A malicous PV guest administrator...

Debian DLA-539-1 : qemu-kvm security update

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in qemu-kvm, a full virtualization solution for Linux hosts on x86 hardware with x86 guests. CVE-2016-3710 Wei Xiao and Qinghao Tang of 360.cn Inc discovered an out-of-bounds read and write flaw in the QEMU VGA module. A privileged guest user could use this...

[SECURITY] [DLA 539-1] qemu-kvm security update

Package : qemu-kvm Version : 1.1.2+dfsg-6+deb7u13 CVE ID : CVE-2016-3710 CVE-2016-3712 Several vulnerabilities were discovered in qemu-kvm, a full virtualization solution for Linux hosts on x86 hardware with x86 guests. CVE-2016-3710 Wei Xiao and Qinghao Tang of 360.cn Inc discovered an...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5337

The megasasctrlgetinfo function in hw/scsi/megasas.c in QEMU allows local guest OS administrators to obtain sensitive host memory information via vectors related to reading device control information...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3007-1)

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...

USN-3003-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use this to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2016-2117 Jann Horn discovered that eCryptfs improperly attempted to use...

USN-3001-1: Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerabilities

Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use this to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory. CVE-2016-2117 Jann Horn discovered that eCryptfs improperly attempted to use...

USN-2997-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Jann Horn discovered that eCryptfs improperly attempted to use the mmap handler of a lower filesystem that did not implement one, causing a recursive page fault to occur. A local unprivileged attacker could use to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3006-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3006-1 advisory. Justin Yackoski discovered that the Atheros L2 Ethernet Driver in the Linux kernel incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O. A remote attacker could use th...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2996-1)

Jann Horn discovered that eCryptfs improperly attempted to use the mmap handler of a lower filesystem that did not implement one, causing a recursive page fault to occur. A local unprivileged attacker could use to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5242

The p2mteardown function in arch/arm/p2m.c in Xen 4.4.x through 4.6.x allows local guest OS users with access to the driver domain to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash by creating concurrent domains and holding references to them, related to VMID exhaustion...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-4963

The libxl device-handling in Xen through 4.6.x allows local guest OS users with access to the driver domain to cause a denial of service management tool confusion by manipulating information in the backend directories in xenstore...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4963

The libxl device-handling in Xen through 4.6.x allows local guest OS users with access to the driver domain to cause a denial of service management tool confusion by manipulating information in the backend directories in xenstore...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3672

The qemu implementation in libvirt before 1.3.0 and Xen allows local guest OS users to cause a denial of service host disk consumption by writing to stdout or stderr...

Unrestricted qemu logging

ISSUE DESCRIPTION When the libxl toolstack launches qemu for HVM guests, it pipes the output of stderr to a file in /var/log/xen. This output is not rate-limited in any way. The guest can easily cause qemu to print messages to stderr, causing this file to become arbitrarily large. IMPACT The disk...

xen-tools -- Unrestricted qemu logging

The Xen Project reports: When the libxl toolstack launches qemu for HVM guests, it pipes the output of stderr to a file in /var/log/xen. This output is not rate-limited in any way. The guest can easily cause qemu to print messages to stderr, causing this file to become arbitrarily large. The disk...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-trusty vulnerabilities (USN-2968-2)

USN-2968-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the Aiptek Tablet USB device driver in the Linux kerne...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2969-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2969-1 advisory. Ralf Spenneberg discovered that the Aiptek Tablet USB device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate the endpoints reported by the device. A...