Docker Patches Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Docker has patched a privilege escalation vulnerability CVE-2016-9962 that could lead to container escapes, allowing a hacker to affect operations of a host from inside a container. The vulnerability is rated high severity by some Linux distributions such as Arch Linux, which traces the problem t...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9602

Qemu before version 2.9 is vulnerable to an improper link following when built with the VirtFS. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to access host file system beyond the shared folder and potentially escalating their privileges on a host...

CVE-2016-9602

Qemu before version 2.9 is vulnerable to an improper link following when built with the VirtFS. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to access host file system beyond the shared folder and potentially escalating their privileges on a host...

CVE-2013-4463: Undefined Security Weakness

OpenStack Compute Nova Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not properly verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image, which allows local users to cause a denial of service host file system disk consumption via a compressed QCOW2 image. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-2096...

Design/Logic Flaw

OpenStack Compute Nova Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana, when usecowimages is set to False, does not verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image, which allows local users to cause a denial of service host file system disk consumption by transferring an image with a large virtual size that does not contai...

CVE-2013-4469

CVE-2013-4469 affects OpenStack Nova (Folsom, Grizzly, Havana) where use_cow_images=False allows a local attacker to cause a DoS by transferring a QCOW2 image with a large virtual size but little data, because the code does not verify the image’s virtual size. Root cause noted as an incomplete fi...

CVE-2013-4469: Undefined Security Weakness

OpenStack Compute Nova Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana, when usecowimages is set to False, does not verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image, which allows local users to cause a denial of service host file system disk consumption by transferring an image with a large virtual size that does not contai...

CVE-2013-2096: Undefined Security Weakness

OpenStack Compute Nova Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana does not verify the virtual size of a QCOW2 image, which allows local users to cause a denial of service host file system disk consumption by creating an image with a large virtual size that does not contain a large amount of data...

[USN-1545-1] Nova vulnerability

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1545-1 August 22, 2012 nova vulnerability ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubunt...