Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kvm security and bug fix update

Updated kvm packages that fix three security issues and multiple bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. 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...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: qspice security update

Updated qspice packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. 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...

CVE-2010-2239

Red Hat libvirt, possibly 0.6.0 through 0.8.2, creates new images without setting the user-defined backing-store format, which allows guest OS users to read arbitrary files on the host OS via unspecified vectors...

Fedora 12 : libvirt-0.8.2-1.fc12 (2010-11021)

A reboot is required to update the iptables rules for the default virtual network to address the CVE-2010-2242 All disk format probing is now disabled in a default installation of libvirt. This change may prevent KVM guests using qcow2 disks from booting successfully. If this occurs verify that t...

Fedora 13 : libvirt-0.8.2-1.fc13 (2010-10960)

A reboot is required to update the iptables rules for the default virtual network to address the CVE-2010-2242 All disk format probing is now disabled in a default installation of libvirt. This change may prevent KVM guests using qcow2 disks from booting successfully. If this occurs verify that t...

qemu: Improper handling of erroneous data provided by Linux virtio-net driver

The virtionetbadfeatures function in hw/virtio-net.c in the virtio-net driver in the Linux kernel before 2.6.26, when used on a guest OS in conjunction with qemu-kvm 0.11.0 or KVM 83, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service guest OS crash, and an associated qemu-kvm process exit by...

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

An updated rhev-hypervisor package that fixes two security issues, multiple bugs, and adds enhancements 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 severit...

RHEL 4 : kernel (RHSA-2010:0474)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2010:0474 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security fixes: a NULL pointer dereference flaw was...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that fix three security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. 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 severit...

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-947-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-947-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN9471.nasl 7965 2017-12-01 07:38:25Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-947-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Ubuntu Update for linux regression USN-947-2

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-947-2 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN9472.nasl 7965 2017-12-01 07:38:25Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux regression USN-947-2 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.ne...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-947-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 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...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-947-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 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-947-2: Linux kernel regression

USN-947-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. Fixes for CVE-2010-0419 caused failures when using KVM in certain situations. This update reverts that fix until a better solution can be found. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that the Linux...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux regression (USN-947-2)

USN-947-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. Fixes for CVE-2010-0419 caused failures when using KVM in certain situations. This update reverts that fix until a better solution can be found. We apologize for the inconvenience. It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not correctly handl...

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 8.04 LTS / 9.04 / 9.10 / 10.04 LTS : linux, linux-source-2.6.15 vulnerabilities (USN-947-1)

It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not correctly handle memory protection of the Virtual Dynamic Shared Object page when running a 32-bit application on a 64-bit kernel. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service. Only affected Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. CVE-2009-4271 It was...

USN-947-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not correctly handle memory protection of the Virtual Dynamic Shared Object page when running a 32-bit application on a 64-bit kernel. A local attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service. Only affected Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. CVE-2009-4271 It was...

openSUSE Security Update : xen-201004 (openSUSE-SU-2010:0293-1)

Collective Xen 2010/04 Update, containing fixes for the following issues : bnc576832 - pygrub, reiserfs: Fix on-disk structure definition bnc537370 - Xen on SLES 11 does not boot - endless loop in ATA detection bnc561912 - xend leaks memory bnc564750 - Keyboard Caps Lock key works abnormal under...

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

An updated rhev-hypervisor package that fixes two security issues and several 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...

Input validation

The virtionetbadfeatures function in hw/virtio-net.c in the virtio-net driver in the Linux kernel before 2.6.26, when used on a guest OS in conjunction with qemu-kvm 0.11.0 or KVM 83, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service guest OS crash, and an associated qemu-kvm process exit by...