USN-2441-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

An information leak in the Linux kernel was discovered that could leak the high 16 bits of the kernel stack address on 32-bit Kernel Virtual Machine KVM paravirt guests. A user in the guest OS could exploit this leak to obtain information that could potentially be used to aid in attacking the...

Oracle Linux 7 : kernel (ELSA-2014-1971)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2014-1971 advisory. - alsa control: Make sure that id-index does not overflow Jaroslav Kysela 1117313 1117314 CVE-2014-4656 - alsa control: Handle numid overflow Jaroslav...

kernel security and bug fix update

3.10.0-123.13.1 - Oracle Linux certificates Alexey Petrenko 3.10.0-123.13.1 - powerpc mm: Make sure a localirqdisable prevent a parallel THP split Don Zickus 1151057 1083296 - powerpc Implement getuserpagesfast Don Zickus 1151057 1083296 - scsi vmwpvscsi: Some improvements in pvscsi driver Ewan...

CVE-2014-8134

The paravirtopssetup function in arch/x86/kernel/kvm.c in the Linux kernel through 3.18 uses an improper paravirtenabled setting for KVM guest kernels, which makes it easier for guest OS users to bypass the ASLR protection mechanism via a crafted application that reads a 16-bit value...

Debian DSA-3088-1 : qemu-kvm - security update

Paolo Bonzini of Red Hat discovered that the blit region checks were insufficient in the Cirrus VGA emulator in qemu-kvm, a full virtualization solution on x86 hardware. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to write into qemu address space on the host, potentially escalating their privileg...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2014-3096)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2014-3096 advisory. - net: sctp: fix panic on duplicate ASCONF chunks Daniel Borkmann Orabug: 19953088 CVE-2014-3687 - net: sctp: fix skboverpanic when receiving...

[SECURITY] [DSA 3088-1] qemu-kvm security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3088-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso December 04, 2014 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

[SECURITY] [DSA 3088-1] qemu-kvm security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3088-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso December 04, 2014 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

DSA-3088-1 qemu-kvm - security update

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 3088-1 (qemu-kvm - security update)

Paolo Bonzini of Red Hat discovered that the blit region checks were insufficient in the Cirrus VGA emulator in qemu-kvm, a full virtualization solution on x86 hardware. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to write into qemu address space on the host, potentially escalating their privileg...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-3088-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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...

Low: 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 Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, whi...

Linux kernel multiple security vulnerabilities

Multiple KVM vulnerabilities, CIFS client DoS, remote DoS vulnerabilities, tracesyscalls privilege escalation and protection bypass...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDVSA-2014:230)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in the Linux kernel : The WRMSR processing functionality in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 does not properly handle the writing of a non-canonical address to a model-specific register, which allows guest OS users to cause...

OracleVM 3.1 : kernel-uek (OVMSA-2012-0042)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - Fix bug number for commit 'cciss: Update HPSABOUNDARY' Joe Jin Orabug: 14681166 - cciss: Update HPSABOUNDARY. Joe Jin Orabug: 14319765 - KVM: introduce kvmforeachmemslot macro Maxim Uvarov Bugdb: 1396...

USN-2421-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in how the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel Virtual Machine subsystem handles the CR4 control register at VM entry on Intel processors. A local host OS user can exploit this to cause a denial of service kill arbitrary processes, or system disruption by leveraging /dev/kvm access...

USN-2420-1 linux vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in how the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel Virtual Machine subsystem handles the CR4 control register at VM entry on Intel processors. A local host OS user can exploit this to cause a denial of service kill arbitrary processes, or system disruption by leveraging /dev/kvm access...

USN-2419-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in how the Linux kernel's KVM Kernel Virtual Machine subsystem handles the CR4 control register at VM entry on Intel processors. A local host OS user can exploit this to cause a denial of service kill arbitrary processes, or system disruption by leveraging /dev/kvm access...

USN-2418-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

Nadav Amit reported that the KVM Kernel Virtual Machine mishandles noncanonical addresses when emulating instructions that change the rip Instruction Pointer. A guest user with access to I/O or the MMIO can use this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash of the guest. CVE-2014-3647 A flaw...

USN-2417-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Nadav Amit reported that the KVM Kernel Virtual Machine mishandles noncanonical addresses when emulating instructions that change the rip Instruction Pointer. A guest user with access to I/O or the MMIO can use this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash of the guest. CVE-2014-3647 A flaw...