Inside the PlayStation 3 Exploit

The recent attack on the PlayStation 3 hypervisor has gotten a tremendous amount of attention, but there has not been much in the way of detailed analysis of the actual exploit itself. However, a prominent cryptographer and security researcher has looked at the exploit and found that it is a...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.18-164.11.1.0.1.el5 - xen check to see if hypervisor supports memory reservation change Chuck Anderson orabug 7556514 - Add entropy support to igb John Sobecki orabug 7607479 - nfs convert ENETUNREACH to ENOTCONN orabug 7689332 - NET Add xen pv/bonding netconsole support Tina yang orabug...

kernel security update

2.6.18-164.10.1.0.1.el5 - xen check to see if hypervisor supports memory reservation change Chuck Anderson orabug 7556514 - Add entropy support to igb John Sobecki orabug 7607479 - nfs convert ENETUNREACH to ENOTCONN orabug 7689332 - NET Add xen pv/bonding netconsole support Tina yang orabug...

kernel security update

2.6.9-89.0.19.0.1.EL - fix skb alignment that was causing sendto to fail with EFAULT Olaf Kirch orabug 6845794 - fix enomem due to larger mtu size page alloc Zach Brown orabug 5486128 - backout patch sysrq-b that queues upto keventd thread Guru Anbalagane orabug 6125546 - netrx/netpoll race...

CentOS 4 / 5 : kernel (CESA-2008:0154)

Updated kernel packages that fix various security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux...

CentOS 4 : kernel (CESA-2009:0331)

Updated kernel packages that resolve several security issues and fix various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any...

CentOS 4 : kernel (CESA-2009:0014)

Updated kernel packages that resolve several security issues and fix various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any...

CentOS 5 : kernel (CESA-2008:1017)

Updated kernel packages that resolve several security issues and fix various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any...

CentOS 5 : kernel (CESA-2008:0233)

Updated kernel packages that fix various security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux...

CentOS 5 : xen (CESA-2008:0892)

Updated xen packages that resolve a couple of security issues and fix a bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The xen packages contain tools for managing the virtual machine monit...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: rhev-hypervisor security and bug fix update

An updated rhev-hypervisor package that fixes security issues and several bugs is now available. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The rhev-hypervisor package provides a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization RHEV Hypervisor ISO disk...

Oracle VirtualBox Detection (Linux/Unix SSH Login)

Detection of installed versions of Sun/Oracle VirtualBox, a hypervisor tool, on Linux systems. The script logs in via ssh, searches for executables of VirtualBox and queries the found executables via command line option SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be...

Researchers Create Hypervisor Tool for Rootkits

Research between North Carolina State and Microsoft has garnered a way to better isolate and centralize kernels–up to 6,000 different kernel hooks–and has stopped nine rootkits. The tool is called HookSafe and runs on Ubuntu Linux 8.04 and uses hardware-based memory. At issue is whether other...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.18-164.6.1.0.1.el5 - xen check to see if hypervisor supports memory reservation change Chuck Anderson orabug 7556514 - Add entropy support to igb John Sobecki orabug 7607479 - nfs convert ENETUNREACH to ENOTCONN orabug 7689332 - NET Add xen pv/bonding netconsole support Tina yang orabug 69930...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.9-89.0.15.0.1.EL - fix skb alignment that was causing sendto to fail with EFAULT Olaf Kirch orabug 6845794 - fix enomem due to larger mtu size page alloc Zach Brown orabug 5486128 - backout patch sysrq-b that queues upto keventd thread Guru Anbalagane orabug 6125546 - netrx/netpoll race...

Xen 3.x - pygrub Local Authentication Bypass

Xen 3.x - pygrub Local Authentication Bypass source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36523/info Xen is prone to a local authentication-bypass vulnerability. A local attacker with physical access to an affected host can exploit this issue to bypass authentication and modify the 'grub.conf' file...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.9-89.0.7.0.1.EL - fix skb alignment that was causing sendto to fail with EFAULT Olaf Kirch orabug 6845794 fix enomem due to larger mtu size page alloc Zach Brown orabug 5486128 - backout patch sysrq-b that queues upto keventd thread Guru Anbalagane orabug 6125546 - netrx/netpoll race avoidanc...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.18-128.4.1.0.1.el5 - NET Add entropy support to e1000 and bnx2 John Sobecki,Guru Anbalagane orabug 6045759 - MM shrink zone patch John Sobecki,Chris Mason orabug 6086839 - NET Add xen pv/bonding netconsole support Tina yang orabug 6993043 bz 7258 - nfs convert ENETUNREACH to ENOTCONN Guru...

RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:1132

The remote host is missing updates to the Linux kernel announced in advisory RHSA-2009:1132. These updated packages fix the following security issues: a flaw was found in the Intel PRO/1000 network driver in the Linux kernel. Frames with sizes near the MTU of an interface may be split across...

RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:1132

The remote host is missing updates to the Linux kernel announced in advisory RHSA-2009:1132. These updated packages fix the following security issues: a flaw was found in the Intel PRO/1000 network driver in the Linux kernel. Frames with sizes near the MTU of an interface may be split across...