RHEL 4 : kernel (RHSA-2010:0394)

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs, and add three enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores,...

RHEL 5 : kernel (RHSA-2010:0398)

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed...

RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2010:0398-01

Check for the Version of kernel OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2010:0398-01 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...

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

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs, and add three enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores,...

Researchers Get Funding for New Secure Operating System

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have received a $1.15 million grant from the National Science Foundation to build a new computer operating system based on virtual machines and the concept of isolation. The new OS project, called Ethos, is the brainchild of UIC associate...

CentOS 5 : kernel (CESA-2010:0147)

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed...

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

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed...

Xen 3.x - pygrub Local Authentication Bypass

Xen 3.x - pygrub Local Authentication Bypass source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36523/info Xen is prone to a local authentication-bypass vulnerability. A local attacker with physical access to an affected host can exploit this issue to bypass authentication and modify the 'grub.conf' file...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 7.10 / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 : linux, linux-source-2.6.15/22 vulnerabilities (USN-679-1)

It was discovered that the Xen hypervisor block driver did not correctly validate requests. A user with root privileges in a guest OS could make a malicious IO request with a large number of blocks that would crash the host OS, leading to a denial of service. This only affected Ubuntu 7.10...

Ubuntu Update for linux, linux-source-2.6.15/22 vulnerabilities USN-679-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-679-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN6791.nasl 7969 2017-12-01 09:23:16Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux, linux-source-2.6.15/22 vulnerabilities USN-679-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-679-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 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...

Fedora Update for xen FEDORA-2007-2270

Check for the Version of xen OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for xen FEDORA-2007-2270 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of t...

Fedora Update for xen FEDORA-2007-2708

Check for the Version of xen OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for xen FEDORA-2007-2708 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of t...

Fedora Update for xen FEDORA-2007-737

Check for the Version of xen OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for xen FEDORA-2007-737 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of th...

Fedora Update for xen FEDORA-2007-344

Check for the Version of xen OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for xen FEDORA-2007-344 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of th...

Fedora Update for xen FEDORA-2008-2057

Check for the Version of xen OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for xen FEDORA-2008-2057 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of t...

USN-679-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Xen hypervisor block driver did not correctly validate requests. A user with root privileges in a guest OS could make a malicious IO request with a large number of blocks that would crash the host OS, leading to a denial of service. This only affected Ubuntu 7.10...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Xen hypervisor block backend driver for Linux kernel 2.6.18, when running on a 64-bit host with a 32-bit paravirtualized guest, allows local privileged users in the guest OS to cause a denial of service host OS crash via a request that specifies a large number of blocks...

missing sanity check in xen block backend driver

The Xen hypervisor block backend driver for Linux kernel 2.6.18, when running on a 64-bit host with a 32-bit paravirtualized guest, allows local privileged users in the guest OS to cause a denial of service host OS crash via a request that specifies a large number of blocks...

[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: xen-3.1.2-2.fc7

This package contains the Xen hypervisor and Xen tools, needed to run virtual machines on x86 systems, together with the kernel-xen packages. Information on how to use Xen can be found at the Xen project pages. Virtualisation can be used to run multiple versions or multiple Linux distributions on...