VMware high latency feature resets to 'normal' after snapshot removal

Challenge The Latency Sensitivity option resets to 'normal' after VMware snapshot removal. This behavior persists regardless of any settings. Cause This is a known issue in ESXi 5.5.x. Please see the following KB article for more information: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2079787 Solution This issue wi...

openSUSE Security Update : kvm (openSUSE-SU-2012:0832-1)

fix vulnerability to temporary file symlink attacks in snapshot file mode. bnc764526 CVE-2012-2652 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE Security Update openSUSE-2012-364. The text description of...

Qemu: qcow2: NULL dereference in qcow2_open() error path

The qcow2open function in the block/qcow2.c in QEMU before 1.7.2 and 2.x before 2.0.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference via a crafted image which causes an error, related to the initialization of the snapshotoffset and nbsnapshots fields...

Qemu: block: possible crash due signed types or logic error

Qemu before 1.6.2 block diver for the various disk image formats used by Bochs and for the QCOW version 2 format, are vulnerable to a possible crash caused by signed data types or a logic error while creating QCOW2 snapshots, which leads to incorrectly calling updaterefcount routine...

Qemu: block: multiple integer overflow flaws

Multiple integer overflows in the block drivers in QEMU, possibly before 2.0.0, allow local users to cause a denial of service crash via a crafted catalog size in 1 the parallelsopen function in block/parallels.c or 2 bochsopen function in bochs.c, a large L1 table in the 3 qcow2snapshotloadtmp i...

Qemu: prevent possible buffer overflows

Multiple buffer overflows in QEMU before 1.7.2 and 2.x before 2.0.0, allow local users to cause a denial of service crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a large 1 L1 table in the qcow2snapshotloadtmp in the QCOW 2 block driver block/qcow2-snapshot.c or 2 uncompressed chunk, 3 chunk length...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-0178

Samba 3.6.6 through 3.6.23, 4.0.x before 4.0.18, and 4.1.x before 4.1.8, when a certain vfs shadow copy configuration is enabled, does not properly initialize the SRVSNAPSHOTARRAY response field, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain potentially sensitive information from process memo...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-0178

Samba 3.6.6 through 3.6.23, 4.0.x before 4.0.18, and 4.1.x before 4.1.8, when a certain vfs shadow copy configuration is enabled, does not properly initialize the SRVSNAPSHOTARRAY response field, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain potentially sensitive information from process memo...

Qemu: block: possible crash due signed types or logic error

Qemu before 1.6.2 block diver for the various disk image formats used by Bochs and for the QCOW version 2 format, are vulnerable to a possible crash caused by signed data types or a logic error while creating QCOW2 snapshots, which leads to incorrectly calling updaterefcount routine...

Qemu: qcow2: NULL dereference in qcow2_open() error path

The qcow2open function in the block/qcow2.c in QEMU before 1.7.2 and 2.x before 2.0.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference via a crafted image which causes an error, related to the initialization of the snapshotoffset and nbsnapshots fields...

Qemu: block: multiple integer overflow flaws

Multiple integer overflows in the block drivers in QEMU, possibly before 2.0.0, allow local users to cause a denial of service crash via a crafted catalog size in 1 the parallelsopen function in block/parallels.c or 2 bochsopen function in bochs.c, a large L1 table in the 3 qcow2snapshotloadtmp i...

Qemu: prevent possible buffer overflows

Multiple buffer overflows in QEMU before 1.7.2 and 2.x before 2.0.0, allow local users to cause a denial of service crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a large 1 L1 table in the qcow2snapshotloadtmp in the QCOW 2 block driver block/qcow2-snapshot.c or 2 uncompressed chunk, 3 chunk length...

Qemu: block: possible crash due signed types or logic error

Qemu before 1.6.2 block diver for the various disk image formats used by Bochs and for the QCOW version 2 format, are vulnerable to a possible crash caused by signed data types or a logic error while creating QCOW2 snapshots, which leads to incorrectly calling updaterefcount routine...

Qemu: block: multiple integer overflow flaws

Multiple integer overflows in the block drivers in QEMU, possibly before 2.0.0, allow local users to cause a denial of service crash via a crafted catalog size in 1 the parallelsopen function in block/parallels.c or 2 bochsopen function in bochs.c, a large L1 table in the 3 qcow2snapshotloadtmp i...

Qemu: qcow2: NULL dereference in qcow2_open() error path

The qcow2open function in the block/qcow2.c in QEMU before 1.7.2 and 2.x before 2.0.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference via a crafted image which causes an error, related to the initialization of the snapshotoffset and nbsnapshots fields...

Qemu: qcow2: NULL dereference in qcow2_open() error path

The qcow2open function in the block/qcow2.c in QEMU before 1.7.2 and 2.x before 2.0.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference via a crafted image which causes an error, related to the initialization of the snapshotoffset and nbsnapshots fields...

Qemu: prevent possible buffer overflows

Multiple buffer overflows in QEMU before 1.7.2 and 2.x before 2.0.0, allow local users to cause a denial of service crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a large 1 L1 table in the qcow2snapshotloadtmp in the QCOW 2 block driver block/qcow2-snapshot.c or 2 uncompressed chunk, 3 chunk length...

Qemu: block: multiple integer overflow flaws

Multiple integer overflows in the block drivers in QEMU, possibly before 2.0.0, allow local users to cause a denial of service crash via a crafted catalog size in 1 the parallelsopen function in block/parallels.c or 2 bochsopen function in bochs.c, a large L1 table in the 3 qcow2snapshotloadtmp i...

Qemu: prevent possible buffer overflows

Multiple buffer overflows in QEMU before 1.7.2 and 2.x before 2.0.0, allow local users to cause a denial of service crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a large 1 L1 table in the qcow2snapshotloadtmp in the QCOW 2 block driver block/qcow2-snapshot.c or 2 uncompressed chunk, 3 chunk length...

How To Export Windows Event Logs

Purpose When submitting a support case for technical assistance, it is sometimes necessary to upload relevant Windows event logs in addition to the Veeam logs. Event logs exported using default settings can be missing important information. This article describes three different methods of...