Debian DSA-3434-1 : linux - security update

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leak. - CVE-2015-7513 It was discovered that a local user permitted to use the x86 KVM subsystem could configure the PIT emulation to cause a denial of servic...

[SECURITY] [DSA 3434-1] linux security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3434-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Ben Hutchings January 05, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Updated qemu packages fix security vulnerabilities

The Advanced Threat Research team at Intel Security reported that guest provided parameter were insufficiently validated in rectangle functions in the vmware-vga driver. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to write into qemu address space on the host, potentially escalating their privileg...

USN-2409-1: QEMU vulnerabilities

Laszlo Ersek discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled memory in the vga device. A malicious guest could possibly use this issue to read arbitrary host memory. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.10. CVE-2014-3615 Xavier Mehrenberger and Stephane Duverger discovered that QEMU...

Oracle Linux 6 kernel security, bug fix and enhancement update

2.6.32-279.el6 - netdrv mlx4: ignore old module parameters Jay Fenlason 830553 2.6.32-278.el6 - kernel sysctl: silence warning about missing strategy for file-max at boot time Jeff Layton 803431 - net sunrpc: make new tcpmaxslottableentries sysctl use CTLUNNUMBERED Jeff Layton 803431 - drm i915:...