How to set customized BIOS strings to HVM VMs

This article describes the method to set customized BIOS strings to HVM VMs through xe CLI of XenServer 7.3 and later, as well as how to get customized BIOS strings on these VMs...

CVE-2017-8158

FusionCompute V100R005C00 and V100R005C10 have an improper authorization vulnerability due to improper permission settings for a certain file on the host machine. An authenticated attacker could create a large number of virtual machine VM processes to exhaust system resources. Successful exploit...

Null pointer dereference

VMware Workstation 12.x before 12.5.8 and Fusion 8.x before 8.5.9 contain a guest RPC NULL pointer dereference vulnerability. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow attackers with normal user privileges to crash their VMs...

Unsupervised Coverage-Guided Kernel Fuzzer: syzkaller

syzkaller is an unsupervised coverage-guided kernel fuzzer. Linux kernel fuzzing has the most support, akaros, freebsd, fuchsia, netbsd and windows are supported to varying degrees. Initially, syzkaller was developed with Linux kernel fuzzing in mind, but now it’s being extended to support other ...

CVE-2017-12251

A vulnerability in the web console of the Cisco Cloud Services Platform CSP 2100 could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to interact maliciously with the services or virtual machines VMs operating remotely on an affected CSP device. The vulnerability is due to weaknesses in the generation o...

CVE-2017-15290

The CVE-2017-15290 entry describes a information disclosure in Mirasys VMS: versions 6.x before 6.4.6, 7.x before 7.5.15, and 8.x before 8.1.1 use a login flow that sends cleartext data from server to client, and not all of this data is required for client functionality. This could expose sensiti...

VMware Workstation 12.x < 12.5.7 Multiple Vulnerabilities (VMSA-2017-0015) (Linux)

The version of VMware Workstation installed on the remote Linux host is 12.x prior to 12.5.7. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities: - A remote code execution vulnerability exists in VMware workstation within the SVGA device. An attacker with user access can exploit this to...

Product update: Virtuozzo 7.0 Update 5 Hotfix 2 (7.0.5-642)

The Hotfix 2 for Virtuozzo 7.0 Update 5 provides stability and usability bug fixes. Vulnerability id: PSBM-70653 Unable to connect network adapter to a running VM. Vulnerability id: PSBM-70557 Ghost file limit was ignored when migrating containers. Vulnerability id: PSBM-70551 plooptrim could ent...

CVE-2017-4925

VMware ESXi 6.5 without patch ESXi650-201707101-SG, ESXi 6.0 without patch ESXi600-201706101-SG, ESXi 5.5 without patch ESXi550-201709101-SG, Workstation 12.x before 12.5.3, Fusion 8.x before 8.5.4 contain a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability. This issue occurs when handling guest RPC request...

CentOS 7 : kernel (CESA-2017:2473)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

kernel, perf, python security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2017:2473 An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity...

CVE-2017-12455

The evaxbfdprintemh function in vms-alpha.c in the Binary File Descriptor BFD library aka libbfd, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause an out of bounds heap read via a crafted vms alpha file...

CVE-2017-12454

The bfdvmsslurpegsd function in bfd/vms-alpha.c in the Binary File Descriptor BFD library aka libbfd, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause an arbitrary memory read via a crafted vms alpha file...

CVE-2017-12453

The bfdvmsslurpeeom function in libbfd.c in the Binary File Descriptor BFD library aka libbfd, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause an out of bounds heap read via a crafted vms alpha file...

CVE-2017-12449

The bfdvmssavesizedstring function in vms-misc.c in the Binary File Descriptor BFD library aka libbfd, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause an out of bounds heap read via a crafted vms file...

CVE-2017-12450

The alphavmsobjectp function in bfd/vms-alpha.c in the Binary File Descriptor BFD library aka libbfd, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause an out of bounds heap write and possibly achieve code execution via a crafted vms alpha file...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2017:2473)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2017:2473 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: A race condition was found in the Linux kernel,...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

openstack-neutron: iptables not active after update

A race-condition flaw was discovered in openstack-neutron where, following a minor overcloud update, neutron security groups were disabled. Specifically, the following were reset to 0: net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-ip6tables and net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables. The race was only triggered by an...

GNU Binutils '_bfd_vms_save_sized_string' function stores out-of-bounds stack read vulnerability

GNU Binutils a.k.a. GNU Binary Utilities or binutils is a set of programming language utilities developed by the GNU Project to work with object files in a variety of formats, with connectors, assemblers, and other tools for object files and archives.The Binary File Descriptor BFD library a.k.a...