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

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

PT-2017-2720 · Linux +3 · Linux Kernel +3

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions 3.18-stable through 4.12-stable Description: The issue is caused by a buffer overflow in the Linux kernel due to a user-controlled buffer being copied into a local buffer of constant size using the strcpy function withou...

kernel: Race condition access to n_hdlc.tbuf causes double free in n_hdlc_release()

A race condition flaw was found in the NHLDC Linux kernel driver when accessing nhdlc.tbuf list that can lead to double free. A local, unprivileged user able to set the HDLC line discipline on the tty device could use this flaw to increase their privileges on the system...

The vulnerability of the Android operating system, allowing a hacker to execute arbitrary code

The vulnerability of the Qualcomm Android operating system’s network driver is related to deficiencies in access control. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary malicious code within the kernel context. This issue is considered “high” because it requires...

The vulnerability of the Android operating system, allowing a hacker to execute arbitrary code

The vulnerability of the Qualcomm Android operating system’s network driver is related to deficiencies in access control. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to execute arbitrary code within the kernel context of the local malware. This issue is considered “high” because it...

CVE-2016-8633

drivers/firewire/net.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8.7, in certain unusual hardware configurations, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted fragmented packets...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-2392

The isrndis function in the USB Net device emulator hw/usb/dev-network.c in QEMU before 2.5.1 does not properly validate USB configuration descriptor objects, which allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and QEMU process crash via vectors...

PT-2016-7130 · Qemu Team +3 · Qemu +3

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: QEMU aka Quick Emulator affected versions not specified Description: The issue allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service by leveraging failure to check IP header length in the vmxnet tx pkt parse headers function...

SUSE-SU-2016:1035-1 Security update for Linux Kernel Live Patch 2 for SP 1

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.51-60.25.1 fixes the following issues: - CVE-2016-2384: A malicious USB device could cause a kernel crash in the alsa usb-audio driver. bsc967773 - CVE-2015-8812: A flaw was found in the CXGB3 kernel driver when the network was considered congested. The kerne...

How to Reverse Image from a Virtual Disk to a Local Hard Disk with VMware ESX4

This article contains information about how to reverse an image from a virtual disk to a local hard disk with VMware ESX4. Background It is often necessary in a Provisioning Services environment to reverse an image to install a Citrix hotfix, change a driver, or do certain other tasks.To achieve...

The vulnerability of the Windows operating system, which allows a hacker to increase their privileges

The vulnerability of the Windows operating system’s Network Driver Interface Standard NDIS implementation is due to buffer overflow attacks. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor, operating locally, to gain increased privileges through a specially crafted application...

QEMU 'net/vmxnet3.c' Denial of Service Vulnerability

QEMU is a suite of simulation processor software. The software is fast and cross-platform. A security vulnerability exists in QEMU 'net/vmxnet3.c', which can be exploited by remote attackers to crash the QEMU process and perform denial of service...

Scientific Linux Security Update : grub2 on SL7.x x86_64 (20151119)

It was discovered that grub2 builds for EFI systems contained modules that were not suitable to be loaded in a Secure Boot environment. An attacker could use this flaw to circumvent the Secure Boot mechanisms and load non- verified code. Attacks could use the boot menu if no password was set, or...

grub2 security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2015:2401 Updated grub2 packages that fix one security issue, several bugs, and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scori...

RedHat Update for grub2 RHSA-2015:2401-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...

CVE-2015-6098

CVE-2015-6098 is a local privilege-escalation flaw in the Windows Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS) with a buffer-overflow in ndis.sys. A crafted local app can gain elevated privileges on Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2/R2 SP1, and Windows 7 SP1. Public exploit references e...

[USN-2745-1] QEMU vulnerabilities

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2745-1 September 24, 2015 qemu, qemu-kvm vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its...

USN-2745-1 qemu, qemu-kvm vulnerabilities

Lian Yihan discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled certain payload messages in the VNC display driver. A malicious guest could use this issue to cause the QEMU process to hang, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. CVE-2015-5239 Qinghao...

USN-2745-1: QEMU vulnerabilities

Lian Yihan discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled certain payload messages in the VNC display driver. A malicious guest could use this issue to cause the QEMU process to hang, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. CVE-2015-5239 Qinghao...

USN-2630-1 qemu, qemu-kvm vulnerabilities

Matt Tait discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled the virtual PCNET driver. A malicious guest could use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host as the user running the QEMU process. In the default installation, when QEMU is used with libvirt,...