Scientific Linux Security Update : Virtio on SL3.x i386/x86_64

This new package provides signed, para-virtualized block and network drivers for Scientific Linux 3 as a KVM virtualized guest. Users may see various warnings during package installation, including : - Different versions of package are already installed. Older versions of the package may cause...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kvm on SL5.4 x86_64

CVE-2009-4031 kernel: KVM: x86 emulator: limit instructions to 15 bytes On x86 platforms, the doinsnfetch function did not limit the amount of instruction bytes fetched per instruction. Users in guest operating systems could leverage this flaw to cause large latencies on SMP hosts that could lead...

Scientific Linux Security Update : qemu-kvm on SL6.x x86_64

KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine is a full virtualization solution for Linux on AMD64 and Intel 64 systems. qemu-kvm is the user-space component for running virtual machines using KVM. It was found that the virtio-blk driver in qemu-kvm did not properly validate read and write requests from guest...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120306)

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues : - A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's XFS file system implementation handled links with overly long path names. A local, unprivileged...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kvm on SL5.x x86_64

It was found that some structure padding and reserved fields in certain data structures in QEMU-KVM were not initialized properly before being copied to user-space. A privileged host user with access to '/dev/kvm' could use this flaw to leak kernel stack memory to user-space. CVE-2010-3881 This...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kvm on SL5.4 i386/x86_64

The x86 emulator implementation was missing a check for the Current Privilege Level CPL and I/O Privilege Level IOPL. A user in a guest could leverage these flaws to cause a denial of service guest crash or possibly escalate their privileges within that guest. CVE-2010-0298, CVE-2010-0306 A flaw...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security fix : - Using the SGIO IOCTL to issue SCSI requests to partitions or LVM volumes resulted in the requests being passed to the underlying block device. If a privileged user only had access to a single...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL4.x i386/x86_64

Security fixes : - a NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the Linux kernel NFSv4 implementation. Several of the NFSv4 file locking functions failed to check whether a file had been opened on the server before performing locking operations on it. A local, unprivileged user on a system with a...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120618)

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. This update fixes the following security issues : - A local, unprivileged user could use an integer overflow flaw in drmmodedirtyfbioctl to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges. CVE-2012-0044,...

Scientific Linux Security Update : up2date on SL3.x i386/x86_64

previously, up2date did not check if it was running on a KVM-based virtualized instance of Scientific Linux 3.0.9. With this update, up2date now checks for and supports running in fully-virtualized environments. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text is C...

CentOS Update for qemu-img CESA-2011:1777 centos6

Check for the Version of qemu-img OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for qemu-img CESA-2011:1777 centos6 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 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-img CESA-2011:1801 centos6

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CentOS Update for qemu-img CESA-2012:0050 centos6

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CentOS Update for qemu-img CESA-2011:1801 centos6

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CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2011:1849 centos6

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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-2012:0676 centos5

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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-2012:0676 centos5

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CentOS Update for kmod-kvm CESA-2012:0051 centos5

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CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2012:0350 centos6

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CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2012:0571 centos6

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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",...