Scientific Linux Security Update : kvm on SL5.x x86_64 (20120521)

KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine is a full virtualization solution for Linux on AMD64 and Intel 64 systems. KVM is a Linux kernel module built for the standard Scientific Linux kernel. A flaw was found in the way the KVMCREATEIRQCHIP ioctl was handled. Calling this ioctl when at least one virtual...

Scientific Linux Security Update : xorg-x11-server on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20120221)

X.Org is an open source implementation of the X Window System. It provides the basic low-level functionality that full-fledged graphical user interfaces are designed upon. A flaw was found in the way the X.Org server handled lock files. A local user with access to the system console could use thi...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kvm on SL5.x x86_64 (20120221)

KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine is a full virtualization solution for Linux on AMD64 and Intel 64 systems. KVM is a Linux kernel module built for the standard Scientific Linux kernel. It was found that the kvmvmioctlassigndevice function in the KVM subsystem of a Linux kernel did not check if th...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL4.x i386/x86_64

Security fixes : - A flaw in sctppacketconfig in the Linux kernel's Stream Control Transmission Protocol SCTP implementation could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service. CVE-2010-3432, Important - A missing integer overflow check in sndctlnew in the Linux kernel's sound subsystem...

Scientific Linux Security Update : Virtio on SL3.x i386/x86_64

This new package provides signed, para-virtualized block and network drivers for Scientific Linux 3 as a KVM virtualized guest. Users may see various warnings during package installation, including : - Different versions of package are already installed. Older versions of the package may cause...

Scientific Linux Security Update : qemu-kvm on SL6.x x86_64

KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine is a full virtualization solution for Linux on AMD64 and Intel 64 systems. qemu-kvm is the user-space component for running virtual machines using KVM. It was found that the virtio-blk driver in qemu-kvm did not properly validate read and write requests from guest...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120306)

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues : - A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's XFS file system implementation handled links with overly long path names. A local, unprivileged...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kvm on SL5.x x86_64

It was found that some structure padding and reserved fields in certain data structures in QEMU-KVM were not initialized properly before being copied to user-space. A privileged host user with access to '/dev/kvm' could use this flaw to leak kernel stack memory to user-space. CVE-2010-3881 This...

Scientific Linux Security Update : up2date on SL3.x i386/x86_64

previously, up2date did not check if it was running on a KVM-based virtualized instance of Scientific Linux 3.0.9. With this update, up2date now checks for and supports running in fully-virtualized environments. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text is C...

Scientific Linux Security Update : qemu-kvm on SL6.x x86_64

KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine is a full virtualization solution for Linux on AMD64 and Intel 64 systems. qemu-kvm is the user-space component for running virtual machines using KVM. It was found that qemu-kvm did not properly drop supplemental group privileges when the root user started guests...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kvm on SL5.4 i386/x86_64

The x86 emulator implementation was missing a check for the Current Privilege Level CPL and I/O Privilege Level IOPL. A user in a guest could leverage these flaws to cause a denial of service guest crash or possibly escalate their privileges within that guest. CVE-2010-0298, CVE-2010-0306 A flaw...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64

Security issues : - Using PCI passthrough without interrupt remapping support allowed KVM guests to generate MSI interrupts and thus potentially inject traps. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the host or possibly escalate their privileges on the host. The fix for this issue ca...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kvm on SL5.4 x86_64

CVE-2009-4031 kernel: KVM: x86 emulator: limit instructions to 15 bytes On x86 platforms, the doinsnfetch function did not limit the amount of instruction bytes fetched per instruction. Users in guest operating systems could leverage this flaw to cause large latencies on SMP hosts that could lead...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security fix : - Using the SGIO IOCTL to issue SCSI requests to partitions or LVM volumes resulted in the requests being passed to the underlying block device. If a privileged user only had access to a single...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kvm on SL 5.4 x86_64

A flaw was found in the way QEMU-KVM handled erroneous data provided by the Linux virtio-net driver, used by guest operating systems. Due to a deficiency in the TSO TCP segment offloading implementation, a guest's virtio-net driver would transmit improper data to a certain QEMU-KVM process on the...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64

This update fixes the following security issues : - Missing sanity checks in the Intel i915 driver in the Linux kernel could allow a local, unprivileged user to escalate their privileges. CVE-2010-2962, Important - compatallocuserspace in the Linux kernel 32/64-bit compatibility layer...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120618)

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues : - A local, unprivileged user could use an integer overflow flaw in drmmodedirtyfbioctl to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges. CVE-2012-0044,...

Scientific Linux Security Update : qspice on SL5.x x86_64

It was found that the libspice component of QEMU-KVM on the host did not validate all pointers provided from a guest system's QXL graphics card driver. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to cause the host to dereference an invalid pointer, causing the guest to crash denial of service or,...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL4.x i386/x86_64

Security fixes : - a NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the Linux kernel NFSv4 implementation. Several of the NFSv4 file locking functions failed to check whether a file had been opened on the server before performing locking operations on it. A local, unprivileged user on a system with a...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kvm on SL5.x x86_64 (20120123)

KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine is a full virtualization solution for Linux on AMD64 and Intel 64 systems. KVM is a Linux kernel module built for the standard Scientific Linux kernel. A heap overflow flaw was found in the way QEMU-KVM emulated the e1000 network interface card. A privileged guest...