Privilege escalation via emulated floppy disk drive

ISSUE DESCRIPTION The code in qemu which emulates a floppy disk controller did not correctly bounds check accesses to an array and therefore was vulnerable to a buffer overflow attack. IMPACT A guest which has access to an emulated floppy device can exploit this vulnerability to take over the qem...

qemu: fdc: out-of-bounds fifo buffer memory access

An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the way QEMU's virtual Floppy Disk Controller FDC handled FIFO buffer access while processing certain FDC commands. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the guest or, potentially, execute arbitrary code on the host with the privileg...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3259-1 (qemu - security update)

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the qemu virtualisation solution: CVE-2014-9718 It was discovered that the IDE controller emulation is susceptible to denial of service. CVE-2015-1779 Daniel P. Berrange discovered a denial of service vulnerability in the VNC web socket decoder...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3456

The Floppy Disk Controller FDC in QEMU, as used in Xen 4.5.x and earlier and KVM, allows local guest users to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds write and guest crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via the 1 FDCMDREADID, 2 FDCMDDRIVESPECIFICATIONCOMMAND, or other unspecified commands, ak...

xen security update

3.0.3-146.el5 - xen-fdc-force-the-fifo-access-to-be-in-bounds-of-the-all.patch - xen-FDC-Fix-buffer-overflow-Herv-Poussineau.patch - Resolves: bz1219333 xen: qemu: floppy disk controller flaw rhel-5.11.z 3.0.3-144.el5 - xm: Fix vcpu-pin complain for CPU number out of range rhbz 955656 - libxc:...

kvm security update

kvm-83-272.0.1.el5 - Added kvm-add-oracle-workaround-for-libvirt-bug.patch - Added kvm-Introduce-oel-machine-type.patch kvm-83.272.el5 - kvm-fdc-force-the-fifo-access-to-be-in-bounds-of-the-all.patch bz1219266 - Resolves: bz1219266 kvm: qemu: floppy disk controller flaw rhel-5.11.z...

Debian DSA-3259-1 : qemu - security update (Venom)

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the qemu virtualisation solution : - CVE-2014-9718 It was discovered that the IDE controller emulation is susceptible to denial of service. - CVE-2015-1779 Daniel P. Berrange discovered a denial of service vulnerability in the VNC web socket decoder. -...

Mobile Drive HD v1.8 - File Include Web Vulnerability

Document Title: =============== Mobile Drive HD v1.8 - File Include Web Vulnerability References Source: ==================== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=1446 Release Date: ============= 2015-03-11 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID: ==================================== 1446...

Instant Recovery or Multi-OS File Level Recovery fails when the VM has Flex-SE disk

Challenge Even if there is at least one manually created SEsparse Flex-SE disk attached to the VM in backup you will experience the following issues: A File Level Restore from Other OS session fails with the error: Failed to mount restore point PowerOn failed, vmRef 'vm-', hostRef 'host-' File...

TestDisk 6.14 - Check_OS2MB Stack Buffer Overflow (PoC)

TestDisk 6.14 - CheckOS2MB Stack Buffer Overflow PoC , , . '.' '. ', . , '. , .', , / / / \ \ ==/ /\ \ / / \ / \ / / | \ \ Y Y \ / /| / \ /||| / / /.-. / /:wq x.0 '=.|w|.=' =''"''=. presents.. TestDisk 6.14 CheckOS2MB Stack Buffer Overflow Affected versions: TestDisk 6.14 - Linux, Windows...

testdisk -- buffer overflow with malicious disk image

CGSecurity TestDisk Changelog reports: Various fix including security fix, thanks to: Coverity scan Static Analysis of source code afl-fuzz security-oriented fuzzer. Denis Andzakovic from Security Assessment for reporting an exploitable Stack Buffer Overflow. Denis Andzakovic reports: A buffer...

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...

BackBox Linux 4.2 - Ubuntu-based Linux Distribution Penetration Test and Security Assessment

BackBox is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. It has been developed to perform penetration tests and security assessments. Designed to be fast, easy to use and provide a minimal yet complete desktop environment, thanks to its own software repositories, always being updated to the latest stable...

Design/Logic Flaw

Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3.3.1 does not properly restrict access to certain APIs, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Java methods via the 1 ServerInvokerServlet or 2 SchedulerService or 3 cause a denial of service disk consumption via the ContentManager...

CVE-2015-0297

Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3.3.1 does not properly restrict access to certain APIs, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Java methods via the 1 ServerInvokerServlet or 2 SchedulerService or 3 cause a denial of service disk consumption via the ContentManager...

Red Hat RHQ Content Fragment Upload Security Bypass Vulnerability

Red Hat RHQ is a set of Red Hat Red Hat of the United States, JBoss middleware program in the enterprise management solution. The program provides management, monitoring and alerting capabilities. A security vulnerability exists in Red Hat RHQ that stems from the program's failure to properly...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: sqlite-3.8.9-1.fc22

SQLite is a C library that implements an SQL database engine. A large subset of SQL92 is supported. A complete database is stored in a single disk file. The API is designed for convenience and ease of use. Applications that link against SQLite can enjoy the power and flexibility of an SQL databas...

USN-2576-2: usb-creator vulnerability

USN-2576-1 fixed a vulnerability in usb-creator. This update provides the corresponding fix for Ubuntu 15.04. Original advisory details: Tavis Ormandy discovered that usb-creator was missing an authentication check. A local attacker could use this issue to gain elevated privileges...

RHQ: ServerInvokerServlet remote code exec

It was discovered that the JBoss Operations Network server did not correctly restrict access to certain remote APIs. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary Java methods via ServerInvokerServlet or SchedulerService, and possibly exhaust all available disk space...

CXF: Large invalid content could cause temporary space to fill

It was found that when a large invalid SOAP message was processed by Apache CXF, it could be saved to a temporary file in the /tmp directory. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted SOAP message that, when processed by an application using Apache CXF, would use an excessive amount of dis...