openSUSE Security Update : Hyper-V (openSUSE-SU-2012:1526-1)

This update fixes the following issues for Hyper-V: The source code without this patch caused hvkvpdaemon to exit when it processed a spoofed Netlink packet which has been sent from an untrusted local user. Now Netlink messages with a non-zero nlpid source address are ignored and a warning is...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1726-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 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...

Ubuntu Update for linux-ti-omap4 USN-1726-1

Check for the Version of linux-ti-omap4 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN17261.nasl 7958 2017-12-01 06:47:47Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux-ti-omap4 USN-1726-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is...

Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1720-1

Check for the Version of linux OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN17201.nasl 8494 2018-01-23 06:57:55Z teissa $ Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1720-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; y...

USN-1726-1 : linux-ti-omap4 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that hypervkvpd, which is distributed in the Linux kernel, was not correctly validating the origin on Netlink messages. An untrusted local user can cause a denial of service of Linux guests in Hyper-V virtualization environments. CVE-2012-2669 Dmitry Monakhov reported a race...

USN-1726-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that hypervkvpd, which is distributed in the Linux kernel, was not correctly validating the origin on Netlink messages. An untrusted local user can cause a denial of service of Linux guests in Hyper-V virtualization environments. CVE-2012-2669 Dmitry Monakhov reported a race...

SuSE 11.2 Security Update : hyper-v (SAT Patch Number 6431)

The Hyper-V userland daemon was updated to match the current kernel Hyper-V feature level. It brings key-value-pair storage that can be queried by the kernel via the netlink interface and can pass information out to the Hyper-V hypervisor. The netlink query code was adjusted to only allow the Lin...

CVE-2012-2669

The main function in tools/hv/hvkvpdaemon.c in hypervkvpd, as distributed in the Linux kernel before 3.4.5, does not validate the origin of Netlink messages, which allows local users to spoof Netlink communication via a crafted connector message...

CVE-2012-2669

CVE-2012-2669 affects the Linux kernel up to 3.4.5 in hv_kvp_daemon (tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c) where Netlink message origin is not validated, allowing a local user to spoof Netlink communication via a crafted connector message. The issue is addressed by a patch included in Linux kernel 3.4.5 (via...