VMware ESXi and ESX address several security issues

a. VMware ROM Overwrite Privilege Escalation A flaw in the way port-based I/O is handled allows for modifying Read-Only Memory that belongs to the Virtual DOS Machine. Exploitation of this issue may lead to privilege escalation on Guest Operating Systems that run Windows 2000, Windows XP 32-bit,...

VMSA-2012-0006:VMware ESXi and ESX address several security issues

VMSA-2012-0006.2 VMware ESXi and ESX address several security issues VMware Security Advisory VMware Security Advisory Advisory ID: VMSA-2012-0006.2 VMware Security Advisory Synopsis: VMware ESXi and ESX address several security issues VMware Security Advisory Issue date: 2012-03-29 VMware Securi...

Mandriva Update for libarchive MDVSA-2011:190 (libarchive)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 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 scriptxrefname:"URL",...

Android Bloatware, Another Serious Android Privacy Issue

Android Bloatware, Another Serious Android Privacy Issue Researchers have found that some Android smartphones are more vulnerable to attacks than others, thanks to add-on software and skins that get installed by handset makers before they ship their smartphones to subscribers. It's not just Carri...

Your Android Phone is Spying On You, Use custom ROM To Protect your Privacy

Your Android Phone is Spying On You, Use custom ROM To Protect your Privacy In this digital age, privacy is more important than ever. Just because you "don't have anything to hide," does not mean that you shouldn't value your privacy or fight for it when companies do things like this, especially...

Your Android Phone is Spying On You, Use custom ROM To Protect your Privacy

Your Android Phone is Spying On You, Use custom ROM To Protect your Privacy In this digital age, privacy is more important than ever. Just because you "don't have anything to hide," does not mean that you shouldn't value your privacy or fight for it when companies do things like this, especially...

IT-Grundschutz M4.057: Deaktivieren der automatischen CD-ROM Erkennung - Windows

IT-Grundschutz M4.057: Deaktivieren der automatischen CD-ROM Erkennung Windows ACHTUNG: Dieser Test wird nicht mehr unterstützt. Er wurde ersetzt durch den entsprechenden Test der nun permanent and die aktuelle EL angepasst wird: OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.94207 Diese Prüfung bezieht sich auf die...

IT-Grundschutz M4.057: Deaktivieren der automatischen CD-ROM Erkennung (Windows)

IT-Grundschutz M4.057: Deaktivieren der automatischen CD-ROM Erkennung Windows ACHTUNG: Dieser Test wird nicht mehr unterstützt. Er wurde ersetzt durch den entsprechenden Test der nun permanent and die aktuelle EL angepasst wird: OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.94207 Diese Prüfung bezieht sich auf die...

RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2011:1321-01

Check for the Version of kernel OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2011:1321-01 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...

USN-1186-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Dan Rosenberg discovered that IPC structures were not correctly initialized on 64bit systems. A local attacker could exploit this to read kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. CVE-2010-4073 Steve Chen discovered that setsockopt did not correctly check MSS values. A local attacker cou...

Atrix 4G Hacked Before You Can Even Buy It !

Following in the steps of the HTC Evo before it, the Motorola Atrix 4G has been hacked to give root privileges before the phone is even available to buy. In more evidence that Android hackers are frequently out-pacing the creators of the phones themselves, the third post in the xda-developers...

CVE-2010-4238

The vbdcreate function in Xen 3.1.2, when the Linux kernel 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 5 is used, allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS panic via an attempted access to a virtual CD-ROM device through the blkback driver. NOTE: some of these details are obtained fr...

Information disclosure

The vbdcreate function in Xen 3.1.2, when the Linux kernel 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 5 is used, allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS panic via an attempted access to a virtual CD-ROM device through the blkback driver. NOTE: some of these details are obtained fr...

CVE-2010-4238

The vbdcreate function in Xen 3.1.2, when the Linux kernel 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 5 is used, allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS panic via an attempted access to a virtual CD-ROM device through the blkback driver. NOTE: some of these details are obtained fr...

kernel: Xen Dom0 crash with Windows 2008 R2 64bit DomU + GPLPV

The vbdcreate function in Xen 3.1.2, when the Linux kernel 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 5 is used, allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS panic via an attempted access to a virtual CD-ROM device through the blkback driver. NOTE: some of these details are obtained fr...

PT-2011-1484 · Xen +2 · Xen +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Xen version 3.1.2 Linux kernel version 2.6.18 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 5 Description: The issue allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service, resulting in a host OS panic. This occurs when there is an attempted access to a virtu...

Nero Burning Rom 6 (nbj.exe) DLL Hijacking Exploit

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Nero Burning Rom 6 (nbr.exe) DLL Hijacking Exploit

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Nero Burning Rom 6 (nero.exe) DLL Hijacking Exploit

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Nero Burning Rom 6 DLL Hijacking Exploit

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