Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64

Security issues : - Using PCI passthrough without interrupt remapping support allowed KVM guests to generate MSI interrupts and thus potentially inject traps. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the host or possibly escalate their privileges on the host. The fix for this issue ca...

Scientific Linux Security Update : xen on SL5.x i386/x86_64

CVE-2009-3525 Xen: PyGrub missing support for password configuration command The pyGrub boot loader did not honor the 'password' option in the grub.conf file for para-virtualized guests. Users with access to a guest's console could use this flaw to bypass intended access restrictions and boot the...

Fedora 15 : xen-4.1.2-6.fc15 (2012-1539)

Fix buffer overflow in e1000 emulation for HVM guests CVE-2012-0029, Start building xen's ocaml, fix a crash and turn a backtrace into an ordinary error Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempt...

qemu-dm Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

ISSUE DESCRIPTION Heap-based buffer overflow in the processtxdesc function in the e1000 emulation allows the guest to cause a denial of service QEMU crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted legacy mode packets. Upstream qemu has already released an advisory hence there is no embargo...

Low: Red Hat Bug Fix Advisory: libvirt bug fix and enhancement update

Updated libvirt packages that fix multiple bugs and add two enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The libvirt library is a C API for managing and interacting with the virtualization capabilities of Linux and other operating systems. These updated libvirt packages include...

PT-2013-1400 · Xen +1 · Xen +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Xen versions 3.3 and earlier Description: The issue is related to an off-by-one error in the addr ok macro, which can be exploited by local 64-bit PV guest administrators to cause a denial of service, resulting in a host crash. This can be...

Xen <= 3.3 DoS due to incorrect virtual address validation

ISSUE DESCRIPTION The x8664 addrok macro intends to ensure that the checked address is either in the positive half of the 48-bit virtual address space, or above the Xen-reserved area. However, the current shift count is off-by-one, allowing full access to the "negative half" too, via certain...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues, various bugs, and add two enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores,...

CentOS Update for rgmanager CESA-2009:1339 centos5 i386

Check for the Version of rgmanager OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for rgmanager CESA-2009:1339 centos5 i386 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ...

CentOS Update for xen CESA-2009:1472 centos5 i386

Check for the Version of xen OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for xen CESA-2009:1472 centos5 i386 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

CentOS Update for xen CESA-2009:1472 centos5 i386

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 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 scriptxrefname:"URL",...

VirtualBox 4.1 Final for Linux Released

VirtualBox 4.1 Final for Linux Released VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware, targeted at server, desktop and embedded use. This version is a major update. The following major new features were added: Support for cloning of VMs bug 5853, see the manual for more...

kernel: xen: x86_64: fix error checking in arch_set_info_guest()

Xen, possibly before 4.0.2, allows local 64-bit PV guests to cause a denial of service host crash by specifying user mode execution without user-mode pagetables...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues and multiple bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. 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 severity...

Fedora 12 : kernel-2.6.32.19-163.fc12 (2010-13110)

Update to kernel 2.6.32.19: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.32.17 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.32.18 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.32.19 - Includes fixes from kernel 2.6.36-rc1 for problems caused by the...

CentOS 5 : libvirt (CESA-2010:0615)

Updated libvirt packages that fix two security issues and three bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings...

libvirt security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2010:0615 Updated libvirt packages that fix two security issues and three bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVS...

Fedora 13 : libvirt-0.8.2-1.fc13 (2010-10960)

A reboot is required to update the iptables rules for the default virtual network to address the CVE-2010-2242 All disk format probing is now disabled in a default installation of libvirt. This change may prevent KVM guests using qcow2 disks from booting successfully. If this occurs verify that t...

Fedora 12 : libvirt-0.8.2-1.fc12 (2010-11021)

A reboot is required to update the iptables rules for the default virtual network to address the CVE-2010-2242 All disk format probing is now disabled in a default installation of libvirt. This change may prevent KVM guests using qcow2 disks from booting successfully. If this occurs verify that t...

CentOS 5 : kernel (CESA-2010:0147)

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...