USN-1778-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Andrew Jones discovered a flaw with the xeniret function in Linux kernel's Xen virtualizeation. In the 32-bit Xen paravirt platform an unprivileged guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service crash the system or gain guest OS privilege. CVE-2013-0228 A flaw was reported in...

DEBIAN-CVE-2013-1797

Use-after-free vulnerability in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel through 3.8.4 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS memory corruption or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted application that triggers use of a guest physical address GPA in 1 movable or 2...

CVE-2013-1798

The CVE-2013-1798 entry concerns the Linux kernel’s ioapic_read_indirect() in virt/kvm/ioapic.c up to version 3.8.4. A particular sequence of invalid IOAPIC_REG_SELECT/IOAPIC_REG_WINDOW operations can allow a privileged guest OS user to read sensitive host memory or trigger a host OOPS, per multi...

Code injection

libvirt 1.0.2 and earlier sets the group owner to kvm for device files, which allows local users to write to these files via unspecified vectors...

[SECURITY] [DSA 2650-1] libvirt-bin security update

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2650-2 (libvirt - files and device nodes ownership change to kvm group)

Bastian Blank discovered that libvirtd, a daemon for management of virtual machines, network and storage, would change ownership of devices files so they would be owned by user libvirt-qemu and group kvm , which is a general purpose group not specific to libvirt, allowing unintended write access ...

Debian DSA-2650-2 : libvirt - files and device nodes ownership change to kvm group

Bastian Blank discovered that libvirtd, a daemon for management of virtual machines, network and storage, would change ownership of devices files so they would be owned by user 'libvirt-qemu' and group 'kvm', which is a general purpose group not specific to libvirt, allowing unintended write acce...

[SECURITY] [DSA 2650-1] libvirt-bin security update

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DSA-2650-1 libvirt - files and device nodes ownership change to kvm group

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Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: rhev-hypervisor6 security and bug fix update

An updated rhev-hypervisor6 package that fixes several security issues and various bugs is now available. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm-rhev security update

Updated qemu-kvm-rhev packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat OpenStack Folsom. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, i...

CentOS Update for kmod-kvm CESA-2013:0608 centos5

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 scriptxrefname:"URL",...

CentOS Update for qemu-guest-agent CESA-2013:0609 centos6

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 scriptxrefname:"URL",...

CentOS Update for kmod-kvm CESA-2013:0608 centos5

Check for the Version of kmod-kvm OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for kmod-kvm CESA-2013:0608 centos5 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 it unde...

CentOS Update for qemu-guest-agent CESA-2013:0609 centos6

Check for the Version of qemu-guest-agent OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for qemu-guest-agent CESA-2013:0609 centos6 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/o...

CentOS 6 : qemu-kvm (CESA-2013:0609)

Updated qemu-kvm packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is...

CentOS 5 : kvm (CESA-2013:0608)

Updated kvm 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 score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is...

CentOS 6 : kernel (CESA-2013:0496)

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues, address several hundred bugs, and add numerous enhancements are now available as part of the ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 6. This is the fourth regular update. The Red Hat Security Response Team has...

qemu security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2013:0609 Updated qemu-kvm packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-lts-backport-maverick vulnerabilities (USN-1083-1)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that the RDS network protocol did not correctly check certain parameters. A local attacker could exploit this gain root privileges. CVE-2010-3904 Nelson Elhage discovered several problems with the Acorn Econet protocol driver. A local user could cause a denial of service...