Null pointer dereference

Xen in the Linux kernel, when running a guest on a host without hardware assisted paging HAP, allows guest users to cause a denial of service invalid pointer dereference and hypervisor crash via the SAHF instruction...

CVE-2011-2519

Xen in the Linux kernel, when running a guest on a host without hardware assisted paging HAP, allows guest users to cause a denial of service invalid pointer dereference and hypervisor crash via the SAHF instruction...

[Tor-ramdisk] Micro Linux distribution whose sole purpose is to securely host a Tor server purely in RAM

Tor-ramdisk is a uClibc-based micro Linux distribution whose sole purpose is to securely host a Tor server purely in RAM. For those not familiar with Tor, it is a system which allows the user to construct encrypted virtual tunnels which are randomly relayed between Tor servers nodes until the...

Hyper-V VSS snapshot import delay

Challenge If you backup your VMs using Dell Equallogic hardware VSS provider in some cases datavhd/vhdx that we read from VSS snapshot could be inconsistent Cause During Hyper-V backup, we execute VSS API call DoSnapshotSet, as soon as it completes, we execute ImportSnapshot VSS API call, without...

Fedora Update for openstack-nova FEDORA-2013-22693

Check for the Version of openstack-nova OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for openstack-nova FEDORA-2013-22693 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright C 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: openstack-nova-2013.2-4.fc20

OpenStack Compute codename Nova is open source software designed to provision and manage large networks of virtual machines, creating a redundant and scalable cloud computing platform. It gives you the software, control panels, and APIs required to orchestrate a cloud, including running instances...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: openstack-nova-2013.1.4-3.fc19

OpenStack Compute codename Nova is open source software designed to provision and manage large networks of virtual machines, creating a redundant and scalable cloud computing platform. It gives you the software, control panels, and APIs required to orchestrate a cloud, including running instances...

USN-2042-1: Linux kernel (Saucy HWE) vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's dm snapshot facility. A remote authenticated user could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information or modify/corrupt data. CVE-2013-4299 Hannes Frederic Sowa discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's UDP Fragmentation Offload UFO. An unprivileged...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: gnome-shell-3.10.2.1-2.fc20

GNOME Shell provides core user interface functions for the GNOME 3 desktop, like switching to windows and launching applications. GNOME Shell takes advantage of the capabilities of modern graphics hardware and introduces innovative user interface concepts to provide a visually attractive and easy...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: RDMA stack security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Updated rdma, libibverbs, libmlx4, librdmacm, qperf, perftest, openmpi, compat-openmpi, infinipath-psm, mpitests, and rds-tools packages that fix two security issues, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team ha...

Going Back to the Future in the Name of Better Security

NEW YORK–If Bill Cheswick had his way, the future of computing and computer security would look a lot like the distant past, with trusted platforms, small programs, applications that can’t affect the operating system and resistance to user mistakes. Cheswick, a former Bell Labs computer scientist...

CVE-2013-4592

Memory leak in the kvmsetmemoryregion function in virt/kvm/kvmmain.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service memory consumption by leveraging certain device access to trigger movement of memory slots...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for chromium (openSUSE-SU-2013:1556-1)

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...

China is planting spying microchips in Electric Iron and kettles that can scan Wi-Fi devices to serve malware

We have discussed many times in our stories the network of Intelligent devices, their capabilities and the possibilities that cyber criminals could exploit them for illegal activities. Hidden chips are used by cyber criminals and state-sponsored hackers to infiltrate company networks and...

CVE-2013-5550

The fabric-interconnect component in Cisco Unified Computing System UCS allows local users to cause a denial of service via crafted command parameters that trigger hardware-component write operations, aka Bug ID CSCtq86549...

Hardcoded credentials

The fabric-interconnect component in Cisco Unified Computing System UCS allows local users to cause a denial of service via crafted command parameters that trigger hardware-component write operations, aka Bug ID CSCtq86549...

CVE-2013-5550

CVE-2013-5550 affects the Cisco UCS fabric interconnect. The issue arises from improper filtering of user-supplied parameters, enabling a local attacker to trigger hardware-component write operations and cause a denial-of-service condition. The vulnerability requires local access to the targeted ...

USN-1994-1: Linux kernel (Quantal HWE) vulnerability

Dan Carpenter discovered an information leak in the HP Smart Array and Compaq SMART2 disk-array driver in the Linux kernel. A local user could exploit this flaw to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory...

Cisco Unified Computing System Fabric Interconnect Denial of Service Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the fabric interconnect of Cisco Unified Computing System could allow an authenticated, local attacker to cause a denial of service DoS condition. The vulnerability is due to improper filtering of user-supplied parameters. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by executi...

/Dev/Random PRNG in Linux Questioned

The sanctity of the dev/random random number generator used in the Linux kernel has been a hot-button issue for more than a month. A petition posted to change.org in September to remove RdRand from dev/random, for example, was met with fury from Linus Torvalds who called the developer who posted ...