OracleVM 3.2 : kernel-uek (OVMSA-2016-0060)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - IPoIB: increase send queue size to 4 times Ajaykumar Hotchandani - IB/ipoib: Change send workqueue size for CM mode Ajaykumar Hotchandani Orabug: 22287489 - Avoid 60sec timeout when receiving rtpg sen...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

kernel-uek 4.1.12-37.3.1 - KEYS: Fix ASN.1 indefinite length object parsing This fixes CVE-2016-0758. David Howells Orabug: 23279022 CVE-2016-0758 - uek-rpm: ol6: revert DRM for experimental or OL6-incompatible drivers Todd Vierling Orabug: 23270829 - unix: properly account for FDs passed over un...

Cisco IOS XR Software BVI Routed Packet Denial of Service Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20150415-iosxr)

A vulnerability in the packet-processing code of Cisco IOS XR Software for Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers ASR could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a lockup and eventual reload of a network processor chip and the line card that is processing traffic. Only...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2016-3554)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2016-3554 advisory. kernel-uek 4.1.12-37.2.2 - sctp: Prevent soft lockup when sctpaccept is called during a timeout event Karl Heiss Orabug: 23222731 CVE-2015-8767 Tenable has...

OracleVM 3.4 : kernel-uek (OVMSA-2016-0047)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - sctp: Prevent soft lockup when sctpaccept is called during a timeout event Karl Heiss Orabug: 23222731 CVE-2015-8767 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The package checks in this...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2016-3551)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2016-3551 advisory. - sctp: Prevent soft lockup when sctpaccept is called during a timeout event Karl Heiss Orabug: 23222753 CVE-2015-8767 Tenable has extracted the preceding...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2016-3553)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2016-3553 advisory. kernel-uek 2.6.32-400.37.16uek - sctp: Prevent soft lockup when sctpaccept is called during a timeout event Karl Heiss Orabug: 23222781 CVE-2015-8767 Tenabl...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2016-3552)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2016-3552 advisory. 2.6.39-400.278.2 - sctp: Prevent soft lockup when sctpaccept is called during a timeout event Karl Heiss Orabug: 23222773 CVE-2015-8767 Tenable has extracte...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

kernel-uek 2.6.32-400.37.16uek - sctp: Prevent soft lockup when sctpaccept is called during a timeout event Karl Heiss Orabug: 23222781 CVE-2015-8767...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

kernel-uek 4.1.12-37.2.2 - sctp: Prevent soft lockup when sctpaccept is called during a timeout event Karl Heiss Orabug: 23222731 CVE-2015-8767...

Fedora 23 : xen-4.5.2-2.fc23 (2015-394835a3f6)

x86: CPU lockup during exception delivery XSA-156, CVE-2015-5307, CVE-2015-8104 ---- update to 4.5.2 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as...

Fedora 22 : xen-4.5.2-2.fc22 (2015-668d213dc3)

x86: CPU lockup during exception delivery XSA-156, CVE-2015-5307, CVE-2015-8104 ---- update to 4.5.2 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as...

RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2016:0185-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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...

openSUSE Security Update : xen (openSUSE-2016-36)

This update for xen fixes the following issues : - CVE-2015-8567,CVE-2015-8568: xen: qemu: net: vmxnet3: host memory leakage boo959387 - CVE-2015-8550: xen: paravirtualized drivers incautious about shared memory contents XSA-155, boo957988 - CVE-2015-8558: xen: qemu: usb: infinite loop in...

openSUSE Security Update : xen (openSUSE-2016-35)

This update for xen fixes the following security issues : - CVE-2015-8568 CVE-2015-8567: xen: qemu: net: vmxnet3: host memory leakage boo959387 - CVE-2015-8550: xen: paravirtualized drivers incautious about shared memory contents XSA-155, boo957988 - CVE-2015-8558: xen: qemu: usb: infinite loop i...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2015:2324-1)

This update fixes the following security issues : - bsc956832 - CVE-2015-8345: xen: qemu: net: eepro100: infinite loop in processing command block list - Revert x86/IO-APIC: don't create pIRQ mapping from masked RTE until kernel maintenance release goes out. - bsc956592 - xen: virtual PMU is...

SUSE-SU-2015:2328-1 Security update for xen

This update fixes the following security issues: - bsc956832 - CVE-2015-8345: xen: qemu: net: eepro100: infinite loop in processing command block list - bsc956592 - xen: virtual PMU is unsupported XSA-163 - bsc956408 - CVE-2015-8339, CVE-2015-8340: xen: XENMEMexchange error handling issues XSA-15...

SUSE-SU-2015:2324-1 Security update for xen

This update fixes the following security issues: - bsc956832 - CVE-2015-8345: xen: qemu: net: eepro100: infinite loop in processing command block list - Revert x86/IO-APIC: don't create pIRQ mapping from masked RTE until kernel maintenance release goes out. - bsc956592 - xen: virtual PMU is...

FreeBSD : xen-kernel -- CPU lockup during exception delivery (2cabfbab-8bfb-11e5-bd18-002590263bf5)

The Xen Project reports : A malicious HVM guest administrator can cause a denial of service. Specifically, prevent use of a physical CPU for a significant, perhaps indefinite period. If a host watchdog Xen or dom0 is in use, this can lead to a watchdog timeout and consequently a reboot of the hos...

x86: CPU lockup during exception delivery

ISSUE DESCRIPTION When a benign exception occurs while delivering another benign exception, it is architecturally specified that these would be delivered sequentially. There are, however, cases where this results in an infinite loop inside the CPU, which in the virtualized case can be broken only...