Virtualization security debate rages on

From SearchSecurity.com Robert Westervelt The debate around cloud security is quickly beginning to mirror the one that has followed virtualization security for the last few years. What begins as a philosophical discussion usually devolves into arguments about technology or vendor roles. In a pane...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 7.10 / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 : linux, linux-source-2.6.15/22 vulnerabilities (USN-679-1)

It was discovered that the Xen hypervisor block driver did not correctly validate requests. A user with root privileges in a guest OS could make a malicious IO request with a large number of blocks that would crash the host OS, leading to a denial of service. This only affected Ubuntu 7.10...

kernel security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2009:0331 Updated kernel packages that resolve several security issues and fix various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel...

Ubuntu Update for linux, linux-source-2.6.15/22 vulnerabilities USN-679-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-679-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN6791.nasl 7969 2017-12-01 09:23:16Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux, linux-source-2.6.15/22 vulnerabilities USN-679-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-679-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 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...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: libvirt security update

Updated libvirt packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Updated 5th May 2011 After installing this update and restarting the libvirtd service, the...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that resolve several security issues and fix various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any...

RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2008:0154-01

Check for the Version of kernel OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2008:0154-01 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...

RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2008:0233-01

Check for the Version of kernel OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2008:0233-01 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...

Fedora Update for xen FEDORA-2007-713

Check for the Version of xen OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for xen FEDORA-2007-713 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of th...

Fedora Update for xen FEDORA-2007-2270

Check for the Version of xen OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for xen FEDORA-2007-2270 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of t...

Fedora Update for xen FEDORA-2007-2708

Check for the Version of xen OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for xen FEDORA-2007-2708 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of t...

Fedora Update for xen FEDORA-2007-737

Check for the Version of xen OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for xen FEDORA-2007-737 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of th...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2008:0167 centos4 i386

Check for the Version of kernel OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2008:0167 centos4 i386 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it und...

Fedora Update for xen FEDORA-2007-344

Check for the Version of xen OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for xen FEDORA-2007-344 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of th...

Fedora Update for xen FEDORA-2008-2057

Check for the Version of xen OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for xen FEDORA-2008-2057 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of t...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that resolve several security issues and fix various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that resolve several security issues and fix various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any...

USN-679-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Xen hypervisor block driver did not correctly validate requests. A user with root privileges in a guest OS could make a malicious IO request with a large number of blocks that would crash the host OS, leading to a denial of service. This only affected Ubuntu 7.10...

CVE-2008-4992

The SPARC hypervisor in Sun System Firmware 6.6.3 through 6.6.5 and 7.1.3 through 7.1.3.e on UltraSPARC T1, T2, and T2+ processors allows logical domain users to access memory in other logical domains via unknown vectors...