TrueCrypt Warns Software 'Not Secure,' Development Shut Down

Is it a hoax, or the end of the line for TrueCrypt? At the moment, there is little more than speculation as to the appearance today of an ominous note greeting visitors to the TrueCrypt page at SourceForge. The text warns that the open source encryption software is not secure and informs users th...

Scientific Linux Security Update : libvirt on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20140527)

It was found that libvirt passes the XMLPARSENOENT flag when parsing XML documents using the libxml2 library, in which case all XML entities in the parsed documents are expanded. A user able to force libvirtd to parse an XML document with an entity pointing to a special file that blocks on read...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: libvirt security and bug fix update

Updated libvirt packages that fix one security issue and three bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity...

[oss-security] CVE request: Qemu: usb: fix up post load checks

Hello, Correct post load checks: 1. dev-setuplen == sizeofdev-databuf seems fine, no need to fail migration 2. When state is DATA, passing index len will cause memcpy with negative length, resulting in heap overflow An user able to alter the saved VM dataeither on the disk or over the wire during...

Cuckoo Sandbox v1.1 - Automated Malware Analysis

Cuckoo Sandbox is a malware analysis system. It simply means that you can throw any suspicious file at it and in a matter of seconds Cuckoo will provide you back some detailed results outlining what such file did when executed inside an isolated environment. Cuckoo generates a handful of differen...

Ubuntu 13.10 : libvirt vulnerabilities (USN-2209-1)

It was discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled symlinks when using the LXC driver. An attacker could possibly use this issue to delete host devices, create arbitrary nodes, and shutdown or power off the host. CVE-2013-6456 Marian Krcmarik discovered that libvirt incorrectly handled seamless...

CVE-2013-7336

The qemuMigrationWaitForSpice function in qemu/qemumigration.c in libvirt before 1.1.3 does not properly enter a monitor when performing seamless SPICE migration, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and libvirtd crash by causing domblkstat to be called a...

CVE-2013-7336

The qemuMigrationWaitForSpice function in qemu/qemumigration.c in libvirt before 1.1.3 does not properly enter a monitor when performing seamless SPICE migration, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and libvirtd crash by causing domblkstat to be called a...

DEBIAN-CVE-2013-7336

The qemuMigrationWaitForSpice function in qemu/qemumigration.c in libvirt before 1.1.3 does not properly enter a monitor when performing seamless SPICE migration, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and libvirtd crash by causing domblkstat to be called a...

Null pointer dereference

The qemuMigrationWaitForSpice function in qemu/qemumigration.c in libvirt before 1.1.3 does not properly enter a monitor when performing seamless SPICE migration, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and libvirtd crash by causing domblkstat to be called a...

CVE-2013-7336

CVE-2013-7336 affects libvirt in qemu migration flow. The qemuMigrationWaitForSpice function in qemu/qemu_migration.c fails to properly enter a monitor during seamless SPICE migration, enabling a local user to trigger a NULL pointer dereference and libvirtd crash by racing with qemuMonitorGetSpic...

CVE-2013-7336

The qemuMigrationWaitForSpice function in qemu/qemumigration.c in libvirt before 1.1.3 does not properly enter a monitor when performing seamless SPICE migration, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and libvirtd crash by causing domblkstat to be called a...

UBUNTU-CVE-2013-7336

The qemuMigrationWaitForSpice function in qemu/qemumigration.c in libvirt before 1.1.3 does not properly enter a monitor when performing seamless SPICE migration, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and libvirtd crash by causing domblkstat to be called a...

CVE-2013-7336

The qemuMigrationWaitForSpice function in qemu/qemumigration.c in libvirt before 1.1.3 does not properly enter a monitor when performing seamless SPICE migration, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and libvirtd crash by causing domblkstat to be called a...

(RHSA-2014:0463) Low: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 3.0 - 90 Day Retirement Notice

In accordance with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform Support Policy, the one-year life cycle of Production Support for version 3 will end on July 31, 2014. On August 1, 2014, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform version 3 will enter an inactive state and will no longer receiv...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: openstack-nova security and bug fix update

Updated openstack-nova packages that fix three security issues and one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 3.0. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, whic...

openstack-nova: XenAPI security groups not kept through migrate or resize

The XenAPI backend in OpenStack Compute Nova Folsom, Grizzly, and Havana before 2013.2 does not properly apply security groups 1 when resizing an image or 2 during live migration, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended restrictions...

nova: Live migration can leak root disk into ephemeral storage

The icreateimagesandbacking aka createimagesandbacking method in libvirt driver in OpenStack Compute Nova Grizzly, Havana, and Icehouse, when using KVM live block migration, does not properly create all expected files, which allows attackers to obtain snapshot root disk contents of other users vi...

(RHSA-2014:0350) Low: Red Hat Enterprise MRG for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Retirement Notice

In accordance with the Red Hat Enterprise MRG Life Cycle policy, the Red Hat Enterprise MRG product, which includes MRG-Messaging, MRG-Realtime, and MRG-Grid, Version 1 offering for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 was retired as of March 31, 2014, and support is no longer provided. Accordingly, Red Ha...

Data Breaches Show Difficulty of Defenders' Task

When attackers broke into the network of the University of Maryland last month, the university’s wasn’t sure how to react. The organization had never had a major security incident before, and this one qualified as major: 310,000 Social Security numbers and other information was gone. And then thr...