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Kernel: KVM: debug exception via syscall emulation
A flaw was found in the way the Linux KVM module processed the trap flagTF bit in EFLAGS during emulation of the syscall instruction, which leads to a debug exceptionDB being raised in the guest stack. A user/process inside a guest could use this flaw to potentially escalate their privileges insi...
openSUSE Security Update : virtualbox (openSUSE-2016-1226)
This update for virtualbox fixes the following issues : - Address CVE-2016-5501, CVE-2016-5538, CVE-2016-5605, CVE-2016-5608, CVE-2016-5610, CVE-2016-5611, CVE-2016-5613 boo1005621. - Reduce memory needs during build. - Version bump to 5.0.28 released 2016-10-18 by Oracle This is a maintenance...
Updated VirtualBox 5.1 packages fix security vulnerability
This update provides the new VirtualBox 5.1 series, currently based on 5.1.2 providing several perfomance enhancements The highlights include: VMM: new APIC and I/O APIC implementations that result in significantly improved performance in certain situations for example with networking VMM: activa...
hugetlbfs use may crash PV Linux guests
ISSUE DESCRIPTION Huge 2Mb pages are generally unavailable to PV guests. Since x86 Linux pvops-based kernels are generally multi purpose, they would normally be built with hugetlbfs support enabled. Use of that functionality by an application in a PV guest would cause an infinite page fault loop,...
USN-1726-1 : linux-ti-omap4 vulnerabilities
It was discovered that hypervkvpd, which is distributed in the Linux kernel, was not correctly validating the origin on Netlink messages. An untrusted local user can cause a denial of service of Linux guests in Hyper-V virtualization environments. CVE-2012-2669 Dmitry Monakhov reported a race...
