CVE-2019-2218

In createSessionInternal of PackageInstallerService.java, there is a possible improper permission grant due to a missing permission check. This could lead to local escalation of privilege by installing malicious packages with User execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for...

CVE-2019-2218

CVE-2019-2218 affects Android Framework (PackageInstallerService.java) with a missing permission check in createSessionInternal, enabling local elevation of privilege by installing malicious packages. Exploitation is local with no user interaction required and could grant complete confidentiality...

CVE-2019-17340

A flaw was found in xen. When the code processing grant table transfer requests finds a page with an address too large to be represented in the interface with the guest, it allocates a replacement page and copies page contents. The page as well as certain other remnants of an affected guest will ...

Facebook scams: Bad ads, bogus grants, and fake tickets lurk on social media giant

We recently highlighted new steps Instagram is taking to try and clamp down on scammers sending fake messages on their platform. It turns out, other social media giants are walking a similar path for a variety of bogus ads and other attacks. Facebook scams in particular have taken off, despite th...

CVE-2019-17340

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 guest OS users to cause a denial of service or gain privileges because grant-table transfer requests are mishandled...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-17340

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 guest OS users to cause a denial of service or gain privileges because grant-table transfer requests are mishandled...

CVE-2019-17340

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 guest OS users to cause a denial of service or gain privileges because grant-table transfer requests are mishandled...

ALPINE-CVE-2019-17340

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 guest OS users to cause a denial of service or gain privileges because grant-table transfer requests are mishandled...

CVE-2019-17340

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 guest OS users to cause a denial of service or gain privileges because grant-table transfer requests are mishandled...

Denial of service

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 guest OS users to cause a denial of service or gain privileges because grant-table transfer requests are mishandled...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-17340

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 guest OS users to cause a denial of service or gain privileges because grant-table transfer requests are mishandled...

CVE-2019-17340

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 guest OS users to cause a denial of service or gain privileges because grant-table transfer requests are mishandled...

CVE-2019-17340

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 guest OS users to cause a denial of service or gain privileges because grant-table transfer requests are mishandled...

Hacker Ordered to Pay Back Nearly £1 Million to Phishing Victims

A prolific hacker who carried out phishing scams against hundreds of companies worldwide has been ordered to pay back more than $1.1 million over £922,000 worth of cryptocurrencies to his victims. Grant West, a 27-year-old resident of Kent, England, targeted several well-known companies around th...

Hacker Ordered to Pay Back Nearly £1 Million to Phishing Victims

A prolific hacker who carried out phishing scams against hundreds of companies worldwide has been ordered to pay back more than $1.1 million over £922,000 worth of cryptocurrencies to his victims. Grant West , a 27-year-old resident of Kent, England, targeted several well-known companies around t...

Linux: No grant table and foreign mapping limits

ISSUE DESCRIPTION Virtual device backends and device models running in domain 0, or other backend driver domains, need to be able to map guest memory either via grant mappings, or via the foreign mapping interface. Inside Xen, mapped grants are tracked by the maptrack structure. The size of this...

CVE-2019-2005

In onPermissionGrantResult of GrantPermissionsActivity.java, there is a possible incorrectly granted permission due to a missing permission check. This could lead to local escalation of privilege on a locked device with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is needed for...

Fedora 30 : xen (2019-53b0dc52ee)

xen: various flaws 1685577 grant table transfer issues on large hosts XSA-284 race with pass-through device hotplug XSA-285 x86: stealpage violates pagestruct access discipline XSA-287 x86: Inconsistent PV IOMMU discipline XSA-288 missing preemption in x86 PV page table unvalidation XSA-290 x86/P...

OSEC-2019-02 Grant unshare vulnerability in mirage-xen

Background MirageOS is a library operating system using cooperative multitasking, which can be executed as a guest of the Xen hypervisor. Virtual machines running on a Xen host can communicate by sharing pages of memory. For example, when a Mirage VM wants to use a virtual network device provided...

openSUSE Security Update : xen (openSUSE-2019-1046) (Foreshadow)

This update for xen fixes the following issues : Update to Xen 4.10.2 bug fix release bsc1027519. Security vulnerabilities fixed : - CVE-2018-19961, CVE-2018-19962: Fixed an issue related to insufficient TLB flushing with AMD IOMMUs, which potentially allowed a guest to escalate its privileges, m...