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...

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...

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...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-7116

Directory traversal vulnerability in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU aka Quick Emulator allows local guest OS administrators to access host files outside the export path via a .. dot dot in an unspecified string...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7116

Directory traversal vulnerability in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU aka Quick Emulator allows local guest OS administrators to access host files outside the export path via a .. dot dot in an unspecified string...

PT-2016-7226 · Qemu Team +3 · Qemu +3

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: QEMU aka Quick Emulator affected versions not specified Description: A directory traversal issue exists, allowing local guest OS administrators to access host files outside the export path by utilizing a .. dot dot in an unspecified string...

openstack-glance: Glance v2 API host file disclosure through qcow2 backing file

A flaw was found in the OpenStack Image Service glance import task action. When processing a malicious qcow2 header, glance could be tricked into reading an arbitrary file from the glance host. Only setups using the glance V2 API are affected by this flaw...

openstack-cinder: Host file disclosure through qcow2 backing file

A flaw was found in the OpenStack Block Storage cinder upload-to-image functionality. When processing a malicious qcow2 header, cinder could be tricked into reading an arbitrary file from the cinder host...

docker: symlink traversal on container respawn allows local privilege escalation

Libcontainer 1.6.0, as used in Docker Engine, allows local users to escape containerization "mount namespace breakout" and write to arbitrary file on the host system via a symlink attack in an image when respawning a container...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-3629

Libcontainer 1.6.0, as used in Docker Engine, allows local users to escape containerization "mount namespace breakout" and write to arbitrary file on the host system via a symlink attack in an image when respawning a container...

Docker Insecure File Descriptor Handling Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Docker is an open-source application container engine that allows developers to package their applications, along with dependency packages, into a portable container and then distribute it to any popular Linux machine, also enabling virtualization. Docker's handling of container redistribution...

Arbitrary files may be overwritten in multiple VMware products

Overview Multiple products provided by VMware Inc. contain a vulnerability where arbitrary files on the host OS may be overwritten. Shanon Olsson reported this vulnerability to JPCERT/CC. JPCERT/CC coordinated with the developer under Information Security Early Warning Partnership. Impact A user...

Second Group Seen Using IE 10 Zero Day

There are at least two different groups running attacks exploiting the recently published zero day vulnerability in Internet Explorer 10, and researchers say one of the groups used the bug to impersonate a French aerospace manufacturer and compromise victims visiting the spoofed Web page. The...

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...

UBUNTU-CVE-2013-5588

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in Cacti 0.8.8b and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via 1 the step parameter to install/index.php or 2 the id parameter to cacti/host.php...

UBUNTU-CVE-2013-5589

SQL injection vulnerability in cacti/host.php in Cacti 0.8.8b and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the id parameter...

DEBIAN-CVE-2013-1922

qemu-nbd in QEMU, as used in Xen 4.2.x, determines the format of a raw disk image based on the header, which allows local guest OS administrators to read arbitrary files on the host by modifying the header to identify a different format, which is used when the guest is restarted, a different...

[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...

HP Arcsight Logger and Connector appliances cross-site scripting vulnerability

Overview HP's Arcsight Connector appliance v6.2.0.6244.0 and Arcsight Logger appliance v5.2.0.6288.0 and possibly other versions contain a file import facility which is vulnerable to cross-site scripting XSS. Description The supplied facility for importing host data from a file System Admin Tab |...