Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2887-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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...

USN-2889-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the AFUNIX implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use crafted epollctl calls to cause a denial of service system crash or expose sensitive information. CVE-2013-7446 It was discovered that the KVM implementation ...

OpenStack Object Storage Denial of Service Vulnerability

OpenStack is a cloud platform management project.OpenStack Object Storage aka Swift is one of the storage projects for storing permanent static data. OpenStack Object Storage failed to properly close client connections, allowing a remote attacker to perform a denial of service by sending a series...

OpenStack Object Storage Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2016-00844)

OpenStack is a cloud platform management project.OpenStack Object Storage aka Swift is one of the storage projects for storing permanent static data. OpenStack Object Storage failed to properly close a server connection, allowing a remote attacker to conduct a denial of service attack by sending ...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2886-1)

It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the AFUNIX implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use crafted epollctl calls to cause a denial of service system crash or expose sensitive information. CVE-2013-7446 It was discovered that the KVM implementation ...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2889-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2889-2 advisory. It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the AFUNIX implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use crafted epollc...

Ubuntu 15.10 : linux-raspi2 vulnerabilities (USN-2890-3)

It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the AFUNIX implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use crafted epollctl calls to cause a denial of service system crash or expose sensitive information. CVE-2013-7446 It was discovered that the KVM implementation ...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-2887-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2887-1 advisory. It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the AFUNIX implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use crafted epollc...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Wily HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2890-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2890-2 advisory. It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the AFUNIX implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use crafted epollc...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-trusty vulnerabilities (USN-2887-2)

It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the AFUNIX implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use crafted epollctl calls to cause a denial of service system crash or expose sensitive information. CVE-2013-7446 It was discovered that the KVM implementation ...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8745

QEMU aka Quick Emulator built with a VMWARE VMXNET3 paravirtual NIC emulator support is vulnerable to crash issue. It could occur while reading Interrupt Mask Registers IMR. A privileged CAPSYSRAWIO guest user could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process instance resulting in DoS...

Oracle: Security Advisory (ELSA-2008-0612)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...

Oracle: Security Advisory (ELSA-2009-1670)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-3291

arch/x86/entry/entry64.S in the Linux kernel before 4.1.6 on the x8664 platform does not properly determine when nested NMI processing is occurring, which allows local users to cause a denial of service skipped NMI by modifying the rsp register, issuing a syscall instruction, and triggering an NM...

QEMU - Programmable Interrupt Timer Controller Heap Overflow

Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=419c4 The programmable interrupt timer PIT controller in QEMU does not correctly validate the channel number when performing IO writes to the device controller, allowing both an information disclosure and heap-overflow...

Google Chrome V8 Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2015-04888)

Google Chrome is the United States Google Google company developed a Web browser. Google V8 is one of the open source JavaScript engine. A security vulnerability exists in the regular-expression implementation of Google V8 used in versions of Google Chrome prior to 44.0.2403.89, which stems from ...

PT-2015-6138 · Linux +3 · Linux Kernel +3

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 4.1.6 Description: The issue allows local users to gain privileges by triggering an NMI within a certain instruction window due to improper reliance on espfix64 during nested NMI processing in arch/x86/entry/ent...

FreeBSD : xen-tools -- PCI MSI mask bits inadvertently exposed to guests (4db8a0f4-27e9-11e5-a4a5-002590263bf5)

The Xen Project reports : The mask bits optionally available in the PCI MSI capability structure are used by the hypervisor to occasionally suppress interrupt delivery. Unprivileged guests were, however, nevertheless allowed direct control of these bits. Interrupts may be observed by Xen at...

FreeBSD : xen-tools -- Potential unintended writes to host MSI message data field via qemu (af38cfec-27e7-11e5-a4a5-002590263bf5)

The Xen Project reports : Logic is in place to avoid writes to certain host config space fields when the guest must nevertheless be able to access their virtual counterparts. A bug in how this logic deals with accesses spanning multiple fields allows the guest to write to the host MSI message dat...

kernel: int80 fork from 64-bit tasks mishandling

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's 32-bit emulation implementation handled forking or closing of a task with an 'int80' entry. A local user could potentially use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system...