Restored Linux Machine Fails to Boot

Challenge An issue with initiramfs may cause the restored Linux machine to fail to boot with the following symptoms: ForRHEL/CentOS/SUSE systems, during the boot process, they will drop into the dracut emergency shell and display errors similar to: dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Virtualization security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for imgbased, redhat-release-virtualization-host, and redhat-virtualization-host is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4 for RHEL-7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, whic...

Item is not suitable for restore

Upon attempt to recover LVM PV or LV from backup using Agent for Linux recovery media ‘Item is not suitable for restore’ error is thrown if ‘Restore whole disk from…’ option is selected for target dis...

Fedora 26 : 2:docker (2017-3976710f1e)

Resolves: 1510351 - CVE-2017-14992 built docker @projectatomic/docker-1.13.1 commit 584d391 built docker-novolume-plugin commit 385ec70 built rhel-push-plugin commit af9107b built docker-lvm-plugin commit 8647404 built docker-runc @projectatomic/docker-1.13.1 commit 1c91122 built docker-container...

SUSE-SU-2017:2319-1 Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2017-12135: Unbounded recursion in grant table code allowed a malicious guest to crash the host or potentially escalate privileges/leak information XSA-226, bsc1051787. - CVE-2017-12137: Incorrectly-aligned updates ...

CVE-2017-0399

An information disclosure vulnerability in lvm/wrapper/Bundle/EffectBundle.cpp in libeffects in the Qualcomm audio post processor could enable a local malicious application to access data outside of its permission levels. This issue is rated as Moderate because it could be used to access sensitiv...

CVE-2017-0401

An information disclosure vulnerability in lvm/wrapper/Bundle/EffectBundle.cpp in libeffects in the Qualcomm audio post processor could enable a local malicious application to access data outside of its permission levels. This issue is rated as Moderate because it could be used to access sensitiv...

CVE-2017-0399

CVE-2017-0399 describes an information-disclosure vulnerability in the Qualcomm audio post processor path: libeffects at lvm/wrapper/Bundle/EffectBundle.cpp. It could allow a local malicious Android app to access data outside its permission level. Affected Android versions are 5.0.2, 5.1.1, 6.0, ...

Vulnerability in lquerylv in LVM impacts AIX,Vulnerability in lquerylv in LVM impacts VIOS

IBM SECURITY ADVISORY First Issued: Mon Nov 7 10:35:13 CST 2016 The most recent version of this document is available here: http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/lquerylvadvisory.asc https://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/lquerylvadvisory.asc...

pvcreate --restorefile fails "/dev/sdx device not found or ignored by filtering" in XenServer

When trying to restore the lvm metadata on a Physical volume from backup using the command pvcreate --restorefile, it is failing with the error /dev/sdx device not found...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : yast2-storage (SUSE-SU-2016:2353-1)

This update for yast2-storage provides the following fixes: Security issues fixed : - Use standard IPC, and not temporary files, to pass passwords between processes. bsc986971, CVE-2016-5746 Non security bugs fixed : - Fix usage of complete multipath disk as LVM physical volume. bsc984245 - Load...

SUSE-RU-2016:1515-1 Recommended update for bash-completion, util-linux

This update provides fixes and enhancements to bash-completion and util-linux. bash-completion: - Improve completion of LVM commands. bsc946875 - Fix completion with backticks. bsc940835 - Make ls completion smarter. bsc889319 - Avoid negative cword position counter. bsc922758 - Avoid trouble if...

LVM - External URLs, Runtime command execution, Suspicious files vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application LVM published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: openstack-nova security update

Updated openstack-nova packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0, 6.0, and 7.0 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: openstack-nova security advisory

Updated openstack-nova packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base...

openstack-nova: Unprivileged API user can access host data using instance snapshot

A flaw was discovered in the OpenStack Compute nova snapshot feature when using the libvirt driver. A compute user could overwrite an attached instance disk with a malicious header specifying a backing file, and then request a snapshot, causing a file from the compute host to be leaked. This flaw...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : dracut (SUSE-SU-2015:2065-1)

The dracut package was updated to fix the following security and non-security issues : - CVE-2015-0794: Use mktemp instead of hard-coded filenames, possible vulnerability bsc935338. - Always install mdraid modules bsc935993. - Add notice when dracut failed to install modules bsc952491. - Always...

BackBox Linux 4.3 - Ubuntu-based Linux Distribution Penetration Test and Security Assessment

BackBox is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. It has been developed to perform penetration tests and security assessments. Designed to be fast, easy to use and provide a minimal yet complete desktop environment, thanks to its own software repositories, always being updated to the latest stable...

AIX 7.1 TL 3 : bos.rte.lvm (U865854)

The remote host is missing AIX PTF U865854, which is related to the security of the package bos.rte.lvm. The running of lquerylv command with variable DBGCMDLQUERYLV set may allow a local user to gain root privileges. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...

BackBox Linux 4.2 - Ubuntu-based Linux Distribution Penetration Test and Security Assessment

BackBox is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. It has been developed to perform penetration tests and security assessments. Designed to be fast, easy to use and provide a minimal yet complete desktop environment, thanks to its own software repositories, always being updated to the latest stable...