arm: vgic-v2: GICD_SGIR is not properly emulated

ISSUE DESCRIPTION When decoding a guest write to a specific register in the virtual interrupt controller Xen would treat an invalid value as a critical error and crash the host. IMPACT By writing an invalid value to the GICD.SGIR register a guest can crash the host, resulting in a Denial of Servi...

xen-kernel -- arm: vgic-v2: GICD_SGIR is not properly emulated

The Xen Project reports: When decoding a guest write to a specific register in the virtual interrupt controller Xen would treat an invalid value as a critical error and crash the host. By writing an invalid value to the GICD.SGIR register a guest can crash the host, resulting in a Denial of Servi...

Xen Resource Management Error Vulnerability

Xen is an open source virtual machine monitor product developed at the University of Cambridge, UK. The product enables different and incompatible operating systems to run on the same computer and supports runtime migration to ensure uptime and avoid downtime. A security vulnerability exists in t...

Kali Linux

Kali Linux Kali Linux is a Debian-derived Linux distribution designed for digital forensics and penetration testing. It is maintained and funded by Offensive Security Ltd. Mati Aharoni, Devon Kearns and Raphaël Hertzog are the core developers. Kali Linux is preinstalled with over 300...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-1563

The ARM GIC distributor virtualization in Xen 4.4.x and 4.5.x allows local guests to cause a denial of service by causing a large number messages to be logged...

CVE-2015-1563

The ARM GIC distributor virtualization in Xen 4.4.x and 4.5.x allows local guests to cause a denial of service by causing a large number messages to be logged...

CVE-2015-1563

The ARM GIC distributor virtualization in Xen 4.4.x and 4.5.x allows local guests to cause a denial of service by causing a large number messages to be logged...

CVE-2015-1563

The ARM GIC distributor virtualization in Xen 4.4.x and 4.5.x allows local guests to cause a denial of service by causing a large number messages to be logged...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1563

The ARM GIC distributor virtualization in Xen 4.4.x and 4.5.x allows local guests to cause a denial of service by causing a large number messages to be logged...

Code injection

The ARM GIC distributor virtualization in Xen 4.4.x and 4.5.x allows local guests to cause a denial of service by causing a large number messages to be logged...

CVE-2015-1563

CVE-2015-1563 involves the ARM GIC distributor virtualization in Xen (versions 4.4.x and 4.5.x). The advisory notes that local guests can cause a denial of service by flooding the hypervisor console with log messages due to the GIC distribution path. This is the precise root cause and impact desc...

CVE-2015-1563

The ARM GIC distributor virtualization in Xen 4.4.x and 4.5.x allows local guests to cause a denial of service by causing a large number messages to be logged...

CVE-2015-1563

The ARM GIC distributor virtualization in Xen 4.4.x and 4.5.x allows local guests to cause a denial of service by causing a large number messages to be logged...

Raspberry Pi 2 — $35 Computer with Quad-Core Processor and it runs Free Windows 10

Earlier today, when Raspberry Pi Foundation unveiled the second avatar of its mini computer, the tech giant Microsoft revealed that Windows 10 operating system will support the Raspberry Pi 2 for the development of smart devices and appliances. Really a great news for all Micro-computing fans – a...

arm: vgic: incorrect rate limiting of guest triggered logging

ISSUE DESCRIPTION On ARM systems the code which deals with virtualising the GIC distributor would, under various circumstances, log messages on a guest accessible code path without appropriate rate limiting. IMPACT A malicious guest could cause repeated logging to the hypervisor console, leading ...

xen-kernel -- arm: vgic: incorrect rate limiting of guest triggered logging

The Xen Project reports: On ARM systems the code which deals with virtualizing the GIC distributor would, under various circumstances, log messages on a guest accessible code path without appropriate rate limiting. A malicious guest could cause repeated logging to the hypervisor console, leading ...

Mouse-Box — An Entire Computer inside a Mouse

Smartphones in our pockets are exponentially smaller and more powerful that they don't realize the need to carry laptops with us everywhere. Now imagine if a small mouse meets the need of the entire PC? Not just imagination, it has been proved and done by the engineers at a Polish startup...

Potential Code Execution Flaw Haunts PolarSSL Library

There is a vulnerability in PolarSSL, an open-source SSL library used in a variety of products, that could enable an attacker to execute arbitrary code under some circumstances. The vulnerability is the result of an uninitialized pointer in the PolarSSL code and researchers said that an attacker...

xen crash due to use after free on hvm guest teardown

ISSUE DESCRIPTION Certain data accessible via hypercalls by the domain controlling the execution of a HVM domain is being freed prematurely, leading to the respective memory regions to possibly be read from and written to in ways unexpected by their new owners. IMPACT Malicious or buggy stub doma...

Fedora Update for arm-none-eabi-binutils-cs FEDORA-2014-14888

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...