Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-raring vulnerabilities (USN-2069-1)

Hannes Frederic Sowa discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's UDP Fragmentation Offload UFO. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly gain administrative privileges. CVE-2013-4470 Multiple integer overflow flaws were discovered in the...

USN-2073-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Hannes Frederic Sowa discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's UDP Fragmentation Offload UFO. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly gain administrative privileges. CVE-2013-4470 Multiple integer overflow flaws were discovered in the...

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Use of 3DES to Encrypt Stolen Target PIN Data Invites Worry

Target Corp.’s admission that encrypted PIN data was stolen in the Black Friday breach was bad news for consumers. For security experts, especially cryptographers, particular exception was taken to the retail giant’s use of Triple DES 3DES encryption to keep the PIN data safe. With all crypto...

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SuSE 11.3 Security Update : Xen (SAT Patch Number 8588)

The Xen hypervisor and tool-suite have been updated to fix security issues and bugs : - XSA-73: A lock order reversal between page allocation and grant table locks could lead to host crashes or even host code execution. CVE-2013-4494 - XSA-74: A lock order reversal between pagealloclock and...

CVE-2013-6400

Xen 4.2.x and 4.3.x, when using Intel VT-d and a PCI device has been assigned, does not clear the flag that suppresses IOMMU TLB flushes when unspecified errors occur, which causes the TLB entries to not be flushed and allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service host crash or...

CVE-2013-6400

Xen 4.2.x and 4.3.x, when using Intel VT-d and a PCI device has been assigned, does not clear the flag that suppresses IOMMU TLB flushes when unspecified errors occur, which causes the TLB entries to not be flushed and allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service host crash or...

CVE-2013-6400

Xen 4.2.x and 4.3.x, when using Intel VT-d and a PCI device has been assigned, does not clear the flag that suppresses IOMMU TLB flushes when unspecified errors occur, which causes the TLB entries to not be flushed and allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service host crash or...

CVE-2013-6400

CVE-2013-6400 affects Xen 4.2.x and 4.3.x when Intel VT-d is used and a PCI device is assigned. The root cause is failure to clear a flag that suppresses IOMMU TLB flushes on unspecified errors, causing TLB entries to not be flushed. This can allow a local guest administrator to crash the host or...

CVE-2013-6400

Xen 4.2.x and 4.3.x, when using Intel VT-d and a PCI device has been assigned, does not clear the flag that suppresses IOMMU TLB flushes when unspecified errors occur, which causes the TLB entries to not be flushed and allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service host crash or...

Free and low-cost tools for PCI DSS Compliance

Complying with the PCI DSS requires policies and processes plus implementing and managing a variety of software tools. As a QSA who has performed many PCI assessments for merchants and service providers, Ive seen and assessed a variety of free and low-cost under $200 software tools that help our...

IOMMU TLB flushing may be inadvertently suppressed

ISSUE DESCRIPTION An internal flag is used to temporarily suppress IOMMU TLB flushes, in order to consolidate multiple single page flushes into one wider flush. This flag is not cleared again, on certain error paths. This can result in TLB flushes not happening when they are needed. Retaining sta...

kernel security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2013:1790 Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring Syste...

Oracle Linux 6 kernel update

2.6.32-431 - md Disabling of TRIM on RAID5 for RHEL6.5 was too aggressive Jes Sorensen 1028426 2.6.32-430 - x86 Revert 'efi: be more paranoid about available space when creating variables' Rafael Aquini 1012370 1023173 - x86 Revert 'efivars: firmware bug workarounds should be in platform code'...

CVE-2013-6375

Xen 4.2.x and 4.3.x, when using Intel VT-d for PCI passthrough, does not properly flush the TLB after clearing a present translation table entry, which allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service or gain privileges via unspecified vectors related to an "inverted boolean...

CVE-2013-6375

Xen 4.2.x and 4.3.x, when using Intel VT-d for PCI passthrough, does not properly flush the TLB after clearing a present translation table entry, which allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service or gain privileges via unspecified vectors related to an "inverted boolean...

Code injection

Xen 4.2.x and 4.3.x, when using Intel VT-d for PCI passthrough, does not properly flush the TLB after clearing a present translation table entry, which allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service or gain privileges via unspecified vectors related to an "inverted boolean...

CVE-2013-6375

Xen 4.2.x and 4.3.x, when using Intel VT-d for PCI passthrough, does not properly flush the TLB after clearing a present translation table entry, which allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service or gain privileges via unspecified vectors related to an "inverted boolean...

CVE-2013-6375

Xen 4.2.x and 4.3.x, when using Intel VT-d for PCI passthrough, does not properly flush the TLB after clearing a present translation table entry, which allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service or gain privileges via unspecified vectors related to an "inverted boolean...