SUSE CVE-2014-3611

Race condition in the kvmmigratepittimer function in arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 3.17.2 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS crash by leveraging incorrect PIT emulation...

SUSE CVE-2015-3214

The pitioportread in i8254.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.33 and QEMU before 2.3.1 does not distinguish between read lengths and write lengths, which might allow guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS by triggering use of an invalid index...

SUSE CVE-2015-7513

arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4 does not reset the PIT counter values during state restoration, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service divide-by-zero error and host OS crash via a zero value, related to the kvmvmioctlsetpit and kvmvmioctlsetpit2 functions...

Friday Squid Blogging: Legend of the Indiana Oil-Pit Squid

At a GMC plant. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I havent covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

The pit_ioport_read function in the Programmable Interval Timer (PIT) emulation in i8254.c in KVM 83 does not properly use the pit_state data structure which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash or hang) by attempting to read the /dev/port file.

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EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.1.0 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1480)

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's futex subsystem handled the requeuing of certain Priority Inheritance PI futexes. ...

QEMU i8254 PIT Emulation Bug

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-2015-075 Potential Impact: Escalation of Privileges Severity: High Summary: A vulnerability was reported in QEMU where a local user on the guest system could potentially obtain elevated privileges on the target host system. This vulnerability was reported to Red Hat...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2016:2976-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. For the PowerPC64 a new 'bigmem' flavor has been added to support big Power machines. FATE319026 The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2016-7042: The prockeysshow function in security/keys/proc....

CVE-2015-7513

arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4 does not reset the PIT counter values during state restoration, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service divide-by-zero error and host OS crash via a zero value, related to the kvmvmioctlsetpit and kvmvmioctlsetpit2 functions...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-7513

arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4 does not reset the PIT counter values during state restoration, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service divide-by-zero error and host OS crash via a zero value, related to the kvmvmioctlsetpit and kvmvmioctlsetpit2 functions...

CVE-2015-7513

arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4 does not reset the PIT counter values during state restoration, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service divide-by-zero error and host OS crash via a zero value, related to the kvmvmioctlsetpit and kvmvmioctlsetpit2 functions...

CVE-2015-7513

arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4 does not reset the PIT counter values during state restoration, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service divide-by-zero error and host OS crash via a zero value, related to the kvmvmioctlsetpit and kvmvmioctlsetpit2 functions...

CVE-2015-7513

arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4 does not reset the PIT counter values during state restoration, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service divide-by-zero error and host OS crash via a zero value, related to the kvmvmioctlsetpit and kvmvmioctlsetpit2 functions...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2889-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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...

USN-2888-1: Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the AFUNIX implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use crafted epollctl calls to cause a denial of service system crash or expose sensitive information. CVE-2013-7446 It was discovered that the KVM implementation ...

Ubuntu 15.10 : linux-raspi2 vulnerabilities (USN-2890-3)

It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the AFUNIX implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use crafted epollctl calls to cause a denial of service system crash or expose sensitive information. CVE-2013-7446 It was discovered that the KVM implementation ...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-2889-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2889-2 advisory. It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the AFUNIX implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use crafted epollc...

USN-2886-2: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the AFUNIX implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use crafted epollctl calls to cause a denial of service system crash or expose sensitive information. CVE-2013-7446 It was discovered that the KVM implementation ...

Linux kernel KVM 'kvm_pit_load_count()' function denial of service vulnerability

Linux kernel is an open source operating system. kvm is a virtualization infrastructure used in it. A security vulnerability in the Linux kernel KVM 'kvmpitloadcount' function allows remote attackers to exploit the vulnerability by submitting a special request to crash the system...

Debian DSA-3434-1 : linux - security update

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leak. - CVE-2015-7513 It was discovered that a local user permitted to use the x86 KVM subsystem could configure the PIT emulation to cause a denial of servic...