CVE-2015-1044: Undefined Security Weakness

vmware-authd aka the Authorization process in VMware Workstation 10.x before 10.0.5, VMware Player 6.x before 6.0.5, and VMware ESXi 5.0 through 5.5 allows attackers to cause a host OS denial of service via unspecified vectors...

USN-2463-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A race condition with MMIO and PIO transactions in the KVM Kernel Virtual Machine subsystem of the Linux kernel was discovered. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service guest OS crash via a specially crafted application. CVE-2014-7842 The KVM kernel virtual machine...

USN-2446-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Andy Lutomirski discovered that the Linux kernel does not properly handle faults associated with the Stack Segment SS register in the x86 architecture. A local attacker could exploit this flaw to gain administrative privileges. CVE-2014-9322 An information leak in the Linux kernel was discovered...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3093-1 (linux - security update)

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or privilege escalation: CVE-2014-7841 Liu Wei of Red Hat discovered that a SCTP server doing ASCONF will panic on malformed INIT chunks by triggering a NULL pointer dereference. CVE-2014-8369 A...

CVE-2014-3610

The WRMSR processing functionality in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 does not properly handle the writing of a non-canonical address to a model-specific register, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS crash by leveraging guest OS privileges, relate...

CVE-2014-3610

The WRMSR processing functionality in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 does not properly handle the writing of a non-canonical address to a model-specific register, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS crash by leveraging guest OS privileges, relate...

CVE-2014-3611

Race condition in the kvmmigratepittimer function in arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS crash by leveraging incorrect PIT emulation...

Open redirect

The WRMSR processing functionality in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 does not properly handle the writing of a non-canonical address to a model-specific register, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS crash by leveraging guest OS privileges, relate...

Race condition

Race condition in the kvmmigratepittimer function in arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS crash by leveraging incorrect PIT emulation...

Null pointer dereference

The instruction decoder in arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.18-rc2 lacks intended decoder-table flags for certain RIP-relative instructions, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash via a crafted...

CVE-2014-8481

The instruction decoder in arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.18-rc2 does not properly handle invalid instructions, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash via a crafted application that triggers 1 a...

CVE-2014-3610

The WRMSR processing functionality in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 does not properly handle the writing of a non-canonical address to a model-specific register, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS crash by leveraging guest OS privileges, relate...

CVE-2014-8481

The instruction decoder in arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.18-rc2 does not properly handle invalid instructions, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash via a crafted application that triggers 1 a...

CVE-2014-3610

The WRMSR processing functionality in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 does not properly handle the writing of a non-canonical address to a model-specific register, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS crash by leveraging guest OS privileges, relate...

CVE-2014-3611

Race condition in the kvmmigratepittimer function in arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS crash by leveraging incorrect PIT emulation...

PT-2014-8494

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions through 3.17.2 Description The issue arises from a miscalculation in the number of pages by the kvm iommu map pages function during the handling of a mapping failure, allowing guest OS users with privileges to cause a...

CVE-2014-3690: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.17.2 on Intel processors does not ensure that the value in the CR4 control register remains the same after a VM entry, which allows host OS users to kill arbitrary processes or cause a denial of service system disruption by...

CVE-2014-3611: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

Race condition in the kvmmigratepittimer function in arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS crash by leveraging incorrect PIT emulation...

CVE-2014-3610

The WRMSR processing functionality in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 does not properly handle the writing of a non-canonical address to a model-specific register, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS crash by leveraging guest OS privileges, relate...

Updated kernel & related packages provide 3.10 longterm support branch

This kernel update provides an update based on upstream 3.10.54 from the 3.10 -longterm branch. It also fixes the following security issue: The kvmiommumappages function in virt/kvm/iommu.c in the Linux kernel through 3.16.1 miscalculates the number of pages during the handling of a mapping...