p2m lock starvation

ISSUE DESCRIPTION The current read/write lock implementation is read-biased, which allows a consistent stream of readers to starve writers indefinitely. There are certain rwlocks where guests are capable of applying arbitrary read pressure. IMPACT A malicious guest administrator can deny service ...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2014:1365)

Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a...

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

Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a...

CVE-2013-3495

The Intel VT-d Interrupt Remapping engine in Xen 3.3.x through 4.3.x allows local guests to cause a denial of service kernel panic via a malformed Message Signaled Interrupt MSI from a PCI device that is bus mastering capable that triggers a System Error Reporting SERR Non-Maskable Interrupt NMI...

Code injection

The Intel VT-d Interrupt Remapping engine in Xen 3.3.x through 4.3.x allows local guests to cause a denial of service kernel panic via a malformed Message Signaled Interrupt MSI from a PCI device that is bus mastering capable that triggers a System Error Reporting SERR Non-Maskable Interrupt NMI...

CVE-2013-3495

The Intel VT-d Interrupt Remapping engine in Xen 3.3.x through 4.3.x allows local guests to cause a denial of service kernel panic via a malformed Message Signaled Interrupt MSI from a PCI device that is bus mastering capable that triggers a System Error Reporting SERR Non-Maskable Interrupt NMI...

CVE-2013-3495

CVE-2013-3495 affects the Intel VT-d Interrupt Remapping engine in Xen 3.3.x through 4.3.x. The vulnerability allows a local guest to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) by sending a malformed Message Signaled Interrupt (MSI) from a bus-master PCI device, triggering a System Error Reporting ...

Intel VT-d Interrupt Remapping engines can be evaded by native NMI interrupts

ISSUE DESCRIPTION Message Signaled Interrupts MSI interrupts on Intel platforms are defined as DWORD writes to a special address location 0xFEE?????. MSIs on Intel Platforms supporting VT-d have two defined formats - Remappable format interrupts, and Compatibility not remappable format interrupts...

Oracle Linux 4 : kernel (ELSA-2007-1104)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2007:1104 : Updated kernel packages that fix various security issues and several bugs in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 kernel are now available. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel package...

Oracle Linux 4 : kernel (ELSA-2009-0459)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2009:0459 : Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues and various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The kernel packages contain...

Oracle Linux 5 : kvm (ELSA-2009-1465)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2009-1465 advisory. 83-105.0.1.el54.7 - Add kvm-add-oracle-workaround-for-libvirt-bug.patch kvm-83-105.el54.7 - kvm-qemu-virtio-net-do-not-return-stack-pointer-from-fun.patch...

Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2009-1670)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2009-1670 advisory. - nfs v4: fix setting lock on open file with no state Jeff Layton 533114 533115 CVE-2009-3726 - drm r128: check for init on all ioctls that require it...

CVE-2011-2693

CVE-2011-2693 affects the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 kernel package, perf subsystem, version 2.6.32-122.el6.x86_64. The root cause is that NMIs are not properly handled by the perf subsystem, which could allow local users to cause a denial of service via excessive log messages . The exploitation ...

SuSE 11.2 Security Update : Xen (SAT Patch Number 7492)

XEN has been updated to fix various bugs and security issues : - XSA 36 To avoid an erratum in early hardware, the Xen AMD IOMMU code by default choose to use a single interrupt remapping table for the whole system. This sharing implied that any guest with a passed through PCI device that is bus...

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

A flaw was found in the handling of IEEE 802.11 frames, which affected several wireless LAN modules. In certain situations, a remote attacker could trigger this flaw by sending a malicious packet over a wireless network, causing a denial of service kernel crash. CVE-2007-4997, Important A memory...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL5.x i386/x86_64

These new kernel packages contain fixes for the following security issues : - a flaw in the handling of IPv6 type 0 routing headers that allowed remote users to cause a denial of service that led to a network amplification between two routers CVE-2007-2242, Important. - a flaw in the nfnetlinklog...

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

Security fixes : - a logic error was found in the dosetlk function of the Linux kernel Network File System NFS implementation. If a signal interrupted a lock request, the local POSIX lock was incorrectly created. This could cause a denial of service on the NFS server if a file descriptor was clos...

RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2011:1350-01

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",...

kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

kernel: 2.6.18-274.7.1.0.1.el5 - fix ia64 build error due to add-support-above-32-vcpus.patchZhenzhong Duan - x86 use dynamic vcpuinfo remap to support more than 32 vcpus Zhenzhong Duan - scsi add additional scsi medium error handling John Sobecki orabug 12904887 - x86 Fix lvt0 reset when hvm boo...

CentOS Update for kvm-83-105.el5_ CESA-2009:1465 centos5 i386

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 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",...