vdsm: Users attempting a live storage migration create snapshot without snapshot creation permissions

It was discovered that the permissions to allow or deny snapshot creation were ignored during live storage migration of a VM's disk between storage domains. An attacker able to live migrate a disk between storage domains could use this flaw to cause a denial of service...

qemu: cirrus: insufficient blit region checks

It was found that the Cirrus blit region checks were insufficient. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to write outside of VRAM-allocated buffer boundaries in the host's QEMU process address space with attacker-provided data...

The vulnerability of Hyper-V software allows a malicious actor to trigger a service failure.

The Hyper-V component of the Windows operating system contains a vulnerability related to errors that occur when a specially crafted application is launched on a virtual machine. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause a failure in the virtual machine controller...

Vulnerabilities in the OpenSUSE operating system that allow malicious actors to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information

Multiple vulnerabilities in the kvm operating system package of openSUSE can be exploited, which may lead to breaches of confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information. These vulnerabilities can be exploited by malicious individuals who have completed the authentication...

RHEL 5 : kvm (RHSA-2015:0869)

Updated kvm packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for eac...

Oracle Java SE and Jrockit JSSE Subcomponent Denial of Service Vulnerability

Oracle Java SE is used to develop and deploy Java applications for desktops, servers, and embedded devices and real-time environments.JRockit is a Java virtual machine built into Oracle Fusion Middleware. A security vulnerability exists in the JSSE subcomponent of Oracle Java SE and Jrockit, whic...

Unspecified Vulnerability in Oracle Sun Systems Product Suite VM Server for SPARC Component

Oracle VM Server for SPARC is a suite of SPARC hypervisors for running multiple OS instances simultaneously on a single SPARC T-Series server. A security vulnerability in the Ldom Manager subcomponent of the Oracle VM Server for SPARC component of the Oracle Sun Systems Products Suite can be...

Unspecified Vulnerability in Oracle Database Server VM Component

Oracle Database Server is a relational database management system. A security vulnerability exists in the JAVA VM component of Oracle Database Server, which can be exploited by remote attackers to compromise system confidentiality, integrity, and availability...

Microsoft Windows Hyper-V Denial of Service Vulnerability

Hyper-V is a technology based on the Virtual Machine Monitor that provides a scalable, reliable and highly available virtualization platform. A security vulnerability exists in the implementation of Hyper-V's Virtual Machine Manager VMM in Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 versions. It allow...

Facebook HHVM 'WddxPacket::recursiveAddVar' Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Facebook HHVM is a virtual machine from Facebook USA that significantly improves the performance of loading dynamic pages with PHP. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the 'WddxPacket::recursiveAddVar' function of Facebook HHVM due to the 'wddxserializevalue' function failing to...

Scientific Linux Security Update : java-1.6.0-openjdk on SL5.x, SL6.x, SL7.x i386/srpm/x86_64 (20150415)

An off-by-one flaw, leading to a buffer overflow, was found in the font parsing code in the 2D component in OpenJDK. A specially crafted font file could possibly cause the Java Virtual Machine to execute arbitrary code, allowing an untrusted Java application or applet to bypass Java sandbox...

Scientific Linux Security Update : java-1.7.0-openjdk on SL5.x i386/x86_64 (20150415)

An off-by-one flaw, leading to a buffer overflow, was found in the font parsing code in the 2D component in OpenJDK. A specially crafted font file could possibly cause the Java Virtual Machine to execute arbitrary code, allowing an untrusted Java application or applet to bypass Java sandbox...

MGASA-2015-0158 Updated java-1.7.0-openjdk packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated java-1.7.0 packages fix security vulnerabilities: An off-by-one flaw, leading to a buffer overflow, was found in the font parsing code in the 2D component in OpenJDK. A specially crafted font file could possibly cause the Java Virtual Machine to execute arbitrary code, allowing an untrust...

OpenJDK: incorrect handling of phantom references (Hotspot, 8071931)

A flaw was found in the way the Hotspot component in OpenJDK handled phantom references. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to corrupt the Java Virtual Machine memory and, possibly, execute arbitrary code, bypassing Java sandbox restrictions...

Oracle Patch Update Delivers 98 Fixes

Released alongside patches from Microsoft and Adobe yesterday, Oracle’s regularly scheduled Critical Patch Update fixed 98 issues across a handful of products, including Oracle’s Database, Fusion Middleware, Java SE, and MySQL, to name a few. One of the most pressing issues the update resolves is...

java security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2015:0807 Updated java-1.7.0-openjdk packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS...

java security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2015:0809 Updated java-1.8.0-openjdk packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System...

CVE-2015-1647

CVE-2015-1647 affects Microsoft Windows Hyper-V, specifically the Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) in Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2. A crafted application running inside a guest VM can cause a denial of service (VMM functionality loss). The issue is tied to Hyper-V’s VMM component (vmms.exe...

CVE-2015-1647

Virtual Machine Manager VMM in Hyper-V in Microsoft Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service VMM functionality loss via a crafted application, aka "Windows Hyper-V DoS Vulnerability."...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-2937

MediaWiki before 1.19.24, 1.2x before 1.23.9, and 1.24.x before 1.24.2, when using HHVM or Zend PHP, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service "quadratic blowup" and memory consumption via an XML file containing an entity declaration with long replacement text and many references to th...