Denial Of Service (DoS)

libvirt.so is vulnerable to denial of service DoS attacks. The library does not properly verify that a disk is attached, leading to race conditions that can cause the application to crash...

New Man-in-the-Disk attack leaves millions of Android phones vulnerable

Security researchers at Check Point Software Technologies have discovered a new attack vector against the Android operating system that could potentially allow attackers to silently infect your smartphones with malicious apps or launch denial of service attacks. Dubbed Man-in-the-Disk, the attack...

New Man-in-the-Disk attack leaves millions of Android phones vulnerable

Security researchers at Check Point Software Technologies have discovered a new attack vector against the Android operating system that could potentially allow attackers to silently infect your smartphones with malicious apps or launch denial of service attacks. Dubbed Man-in-the-Disk , the attac...

DEF CON 2018: ‘Man in the Disk’ Attack Surface Affects All Android Phones

A function of the Android storage mechanism opens up an attack surface that affects all Android devices, and allows an attacker to corrupt data, steal sensitive information or even take control of a mobile phone. Simply put, the issue – dubbed “man in the disk” – allows a bad actor to hijack the...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-7754

The aoediskdebugfsshow function in drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c in the Linux kernel through 4.16.4rc4 allows local users to obtain sensitive address information by reading "ffree: " lines in a debugfs file...

BIOS Boots What? Finding Evil in Boot Code at Scale!

The second issue is that reverse engineering all boot records is impractical. Given the job of determining if a single system is infected with a bootkit, a malware analyst could acquire a disk image and then reverse engineer the boot bytes to determine if anything malicious is present in the boot...

Security Bulletin: OpenStack Cinder/Glance/Nova vulnerabilities affect IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack (CVE-2015-5162)

Summary IBM Cloud Manager has addressed vulnerabilities in OpenStack Nova/Glance/Cinder. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2015-5162 DESCRIPTION: OpenStack Cinder, Glance and Nova are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the failure to limit qemu-img calls by the image parser. By using a...

How to Fix a Mac Stuck on a White Screen

If a plain white screen appears when your Mac starts, then some of its hardware or software may have failed. Follow the steps below to solve the problem. 1. Check your Mac’s hardware systematically. To find a malfunctioning device attached to your Mac, start by disconnecting everything from it,...

Warning: "Disk usage for the Active OS partition is at 70%" on Citrix SD-WAN

The following warning message is displayed on Citrix SD-WAN: Disk usage for the Active OS partition is at 70%...

Intel Optane memory module information disclosure vulnerability

Intel Optane memory module with Whole Disk Encryption is a memory module with Whole Disk Encryption from Intel USA. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in storage media with Intel Optane memory module with Whole Disk Encryption. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain da...

Failed to mount Elastic Layers, "A virtual disk support provider for the specified file was not found."

When using Elastic or User Layers, they do not get attached to the end-user VM when the user logs in. Checking C:\ProgramData\Unidesk\Logs\Ulayersvc.log, you see an error like this: 2018-07-19 13:02:25,804 ERROR 16 CompositingManager: Caught exception:...

CVE-2018-3619

Information disclosure vulnerability in storage media in systems with Intel Optane memory module with Whole Disk Encryption may allow an attacker to recover data via physical access...

Information disclosure

Information disclosure vulnerability in storage media in systems with Intel Optane memory module with Whole Disk Encryption may allow an attacker to recover data via physical access...

CVE-2018-3619

Information disclosure vulnerability in storage media in systems with Intel Optane memory module with Whole Disk Encryption may allow an attacker to recover data via physical access...

CVE-2018-3619

CVE-2018-3619 describes an information-disclosure vulnerability in storage media when using an Intel® Optane™ memory module with BitLocker-enabled Whole Disk Encryption. A small region on the non-Optane memory can remain unencrypted if BitLocker is enabled after configuring the Optane module, pot...

Intel® Optane™ memory module update

Summary: Information disclosure vulnerability in storage media in systems with Intel® Optane™ memory module with Whole Disk Encryption may allow an attacker to recover data via physical access. Description: Intel identified an issue where some systems configured with Whole Disk Encryption and an...

HPSBHF03587 rev. 1 - Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Storage Media in Systems with Intel® Optane™ Memory Module with Whole Disk Encryption

Potential Security Impact Some platforms configured with Whole Disk Encryption and an Intel® Optane™ memory module, may be at risk of data remaining unencrypted and potentially accessible under specific conditions. Source: HP, HP Product Security Response Team PSRT Reported by: Intel VULNERABILIT...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-12892

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.7 through 4.10.x. libxl fails to pass the readonly flag to qemu when setting up a SCSI disk, due to what was probably an erroneous merge conflict resolution. Malicious guest administrators or in some situations users may be able to write to supposedly read-only di...

CVE-2018-12892

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.7 through 4.10.x. libxl fails to pass the readonly flag to qemu when setting up a SCSI disk, due to what was probably an erroneous merge conflict resolution. Malicious guest administrators or in some situations users may be able to write to supposedly read-only di...

ALPINE-CVE-2018-12892

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.7 through 4.10.x. libxl fails to pass the readonly flag to qemu when setting up a SCSI disk, due to what was probably an erroneous merge conflict resolution. Malicious guest administrators or in some situations users may be able to write to supposedly read-only di...