Configuring PVS for High Availability with UEFI Booting and PXE service

Provisioning server - cannot load balance or HA...

PVS 7.6: Updated Version not Seen in vDisk

After updating vdisk in private mode while booting the devices in standard mode any changes made on the previous version is not seen...

VMWare Tools Auto-Update Renders PVS Target Devices Unresponsive

The PVS target device turn unresponsive a few seconds after booting up correctly. The behavior is only observed after devices are rebooted. The device will be marked as down on the PVS console and there will be no retries registered as the device will not reconnect to PVS...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: kf5-kinit-5.24.0-1.fc23

kdeinit is a process launcher somewhat similar to the famous init used for booting UNIX. It launches processes by forking and then loading a dynamic library which s hould contain a 'kdemain...' function...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: dnsmasq-2.76-1.fc24

Dnsmasq is lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder and DHCP server. It is designed to provide DNS and, optionally, DHCP, to a small network. It can serve the names of local machines which are not in the global DNS. The DHCP server integrates with the DNS server and allows machines with...

Code injection

Cisco Unified Computing System UCS 2.23fA on Fabric Interconnect 6200 devices allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption or device outage via a SYN flood on the SSH port during the booting process, aka Bug ID CSCuu81757...

Booting Kali Linux Live over HTTP

The basic premise involves using the Kali Live kernel and initrd for booting, while calling the Kali root filesystem through an HTTP URI. The initial boot process can take place over the network via PXE or a minimal USB/CD – while the remote root filesystem is a squashfs image served over HTTP vi...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: shim security update

Updated shim packages that fix three security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for...

shim: heap-based buffer overflow flaw in IPv6 address parsing

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found the way shim parsed certain IPv6 addresses. If IPv6 network booting was enabled, a malicious server could supply a crafted IPv6 address that would cause shim to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code...

Fedora 21 : qemu-2.1.2-2.fc21 (2014-11588)

Rebased to version 2.1.2 - CVE-2014-3640 qemu: slirp: NULL pointer bz 1144821, bz 1144818 - Add Requires seabios = 1.7.5, otherwise Windows virtio booting does not work. - Add Requires seabios = 1.7.5, otherwise Windows virtio booting does not work. - Fix crash on migration/snapshot bz 1144490...

CVE-2014-3001

The device file system aka devfs in FreeBSD 10.0 before p2 does not load default rulesets when booting, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass intended restrictions by leveraging a jailed device node process...

Fedora 19 : kernel-3.9.4-301.fc19 (2013-10050)

Bugfix update to 3.9.4. Fixes UEFI NVRAM space issues that prevented booting on some machines. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possibl...

Fedora 18 : qemu-1.2.2-11.fc18 (2013-6221)

Fix booting 3.8 kernels with qemu-system-arm bz 922796 - Fix crash with -vga qxl, sdl, and F19 guest bz 949126 - CVE-2013-1922: qemu-nbd block format auto-detection vulnerability bz 952574, bz 923219 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from...

CentOS 5 : kernel (CESA-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...

[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: dnsmasq-2.46-3.fc11

Dnsmasq is lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder and DHCP server. It is designed to provide DNS and, optionally, DHCP, to a small network. It can serve the names of local machines which are not in the global DNS. The DHCP server integrates with the DNS server and allows machines with...

Fedora 8 : kvm-60-6.fc8 (2008-4604)

Tue May 27 2008 Glauber Costa - 60-6.fc8 - Fix Cirrus heap overflow vulnerability 448524 - Fri May 23 2008 Daniel P. Berrange - 60-5.fc8 - Put PTY in rawmode - Fri May 16 2008 Glauber Costa - 60-4.fc8 - Fix problem with cirrus device that was breaking vnc connections rhbz 446830 - Wed Feb 27 2008...

[Full-disclosure] Multiple vulnerabilities in BFCommand & Control for Battlefield 1942 and Vietnam

Luigi Auriemma Application: BFCommand & Control Server Manager http://www.bfcommandcontrol.org Versions: BFCC = 1.22A BFVCC = 2.14B BFVCCDaemon is NOT vulnerable Platforms: Windows Bugs: A full anonymous login bypass B login bypass through NULL username C invulnerable clients and full privileges ...

CVE-1999-1443

CVE-1999-1443 relates to Micah Software Full Armor Network Configurator and Zero Administration. Local attackers with physical access can bypass desktop protection via (1) initiating CTRL+ALT+DEL and terminating the process with Task Manager, (2) booting from an alternate disk, or (3) interruptin...