Venom

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-2015-046 Potential Impact: Escalation of Privileges Severity: High Summary: A buffer overflow vulnerability affecting the Floppy Disk Controller FDC emulation implemented in the QEMU component has been identified in the KVM/QEMU and Xen hypervisors. This vulnerabilit...

spice security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2016:1204 An update for spice-server is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed...

The vulnerability of Xen hypervisors, which allows a malicious actor to trigger a service failure

The vulnerability of Xen hypervisors exists due to insufficient validation of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a local attacker to cause a service failure abnormal termination of operations...

SEE - Sandboxed Execution Environment

Sandboxed Execution Environment SEE is a framework for building test automation in secured Environments. The Sandboxes, provided via libvirt, are customizable allowing high degree of flexibility. Different type of Hypervisors Qemu, VirtualBox, LXC can be employed to run the Test Environments...

Sandboxed Execution Environment: SEE

Sandboxed Execution Environment SEE is a framework for building test automation in secured Environments. The Sandboxes, provided via libvirt, are customizable allowing high degree of flexibility. Different type of Hypervisors Qemu, VirtualBox, LXC can be employed to run the Test Environments...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on upstream 4.1.13 longterm kernel and fixes the following security issues: The virtnetprobe function in drivers/net/virtionet.c in the Linux kernel before 4.2 attempts to support a FRAGLIST feature without proper memory allocation, which allows guest OS users to cause...

Oracle Patches VENOM Vulnerability

Oracle, whose virtualization software VirtualBox is among those affected by the VENOM vulnerability, on Saturday joined the litany of VM providers that have patched the bug. Oracle was one of the first vendors notified by Crowdstrike, whose researcher Jason Geffner found the bug and disclosed it...

Flaw in Virtualization Software Could Lead to VM Escapes, Data Theft

Researchers have uncovered a vulnerability in an obscure component of many virtualization platforms that they say can allow an attacker to escape from a guest virtual machine and gain code execution on the host, as well as any other VMs operating on that machine. Experts say the bug affects a wid...

Excessive checking in compatibility mode hypercall argument translation

ISSUE DESCRIPTION The hypercall argument translation needed for 32-bit guests running on 64-bit hypervisors performs checks on the final register state. These checks cover all registers potentially holding hypercall arguments, not just the ones actually doing so for the hypercall being processed,...

CVE-2014-0189

virt-who uses world-readable permissions for /etc/sysconfig/virt-who, which allows local users to obtain password for hypervisors by reading the file...

Default credentials

virt-who uses world-readable permissions for /etc/sysconfig/virt-who, which allows local users to obtain password for hypervisors by reading the file...

CVE-2014-0189

virt-who uses world-readable permissions for /etc/sysconfig/virt-who, which allows local users to obtain password for hypervisors by reading the file...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: openstack-nova-2013.1.5-1.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...

VMware Patches Vulnerabilities in ESX, ESXi

VMware has patched a vulnerability in its ESX and ESXi hypervisors that could allow unauthorized local access to files. “This issue may allow an unprivileged vCenter Server user with the privilege ‘Add Existing Disk’ to obtain read and write access to arbitrary files on ESXi or ESX,” the company...

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 ...

qspice security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2013:1474 Updated qspice packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: openstack-nova-2013.1.3-2.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...

CVE-2012-4539

Xen 4.0 through 4.2, when running 32-bit x86 PV guests on 64-bit hypervisors, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service infinite loop and hang or crash via invalid arguments to GNTTABOPgetstatusframes, aka "Grant table hypercall infinite loop DoS vulnerability."...

CVE-2012-4539

This CVE affects Xen hypervisor versions 4.0–4.2 when running 32-bit PV guests on 64-bit hosts. The vulnerability is triggered by invalid arguments to GNTTABOP_get_status_frames in the grant table hypercall, allowing a local guest OS administrator to cause a denial-of-service (infinite loop, hang...

Virtual Machine Escape Exploit Targets Xen

Details of a dangerous virtual machine escape exploit were revealed Wednesday by French research outfit VUPEN Security. The attack exploits a recently reported vulnerability in Xen hypervisors and allows an attacker within a guest virtual machine to escape to the host and execute code. Virtual...