Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Advanced Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity...

CVE-2015-8743

QEMU aka Quick Emulator built with the NE2000 device emulation support is vulnerable to an OOB r/w access issue. It could occur while performing 'ioport' r/w operations. A privileged CAPSYSRAWIO user/process could use this flaw to leak or corrupt QEMU memory bytes...

FreeBSD : qemu -- denial of service vulnerabilities in NE2000 NIC support (6aa3322f-b150-11e5-9728-002590263bf5)

Prasad J Pandit, Red Hat Product Security Team, reports : Qemu emulator built with the NE2000 NIC emulation support is vulnerable to an infinite loop issue. It could occur when receiving packets over the network. A privileged user inside guest could use this flaw to crash the Qemu instance...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8744

QEMU aka Quick Emulator built with a VMWARE VMXNET3 paravirtual NIC emulator support is vulnerable to crash issue. It occurs when a guest sends a Layer-2 packet smaller than 22 bytes. A privileged CAPSYSRAWIO guest user could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process instance resulting in DoS...

virt: guest to host DoS by triggering an infinite loop in microcode via #DB exception

It was found that the x86 ISA Instruction Set Architecture is prone to a denial of service attack inside a virtualized environment in the form of an infinite loop in the microcode due to the way sequential delivering of benign exceptions such as DB debug exception is handled. A privileged user...

virt: guest to host DoS by triggering an infinite loop in microcode via #AC exception

It was found that the x86 ISA Instruction Set Architecture is prone to a denial of service attack inside a virtualized environment in the form of an infinite loop in the microcode due to the way sequential delivering of benign exceptions such as AC alignment check exception is handled. A privileg...

virt: guest to host DoS by triggering an infinite loop in microcode via #AC exception

It was found that the x86 ISA Instruction Set Architecture is prone to a denial of service attack inside a virtualized environment in the form of an infinite loop in the microcode due to the way sequential delivering of benign exceptions such as AC alignment check exception is handled. A privileg...

virt: guest to host DoS by triggering an infinite loop in microcode via #DB exception

It was found that the x86 ISA Instruction Set Architecture is prone to a denial of service attack inside a virtualized environment in the form of an infinite loop in the microcode due to the way sequential delivering of benign exceptions such as DB debug exception is handled. A privileged user...

Cyclope Employee Surveillance 8.6.1 Insecure File Permissions

Author: loneferret of Offensive Security Product: Cyclope Employee Surveillance Solution again Version: = 6.8.1 Vendor Site: http://www.cyclope-series.com/ Software Download: http://www.cyclope-series.com/download/index.html Link: http://www.cyclope-series.com/setups/setup.exe Software descriptio...

Cisco Firepower 9000 Operating System Command Injection Vulnerability

A vulnerability in a user script supplied with Cisco Firepower 9000 could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system with the privileges of the authenticated user. The script can be accessed via the web interface. The vulnerability is...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2015:2152)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2015:2152 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's file...

xfsprogs: xfs_metadump information disclosure flaw

It was discovered that the xfsmetadump tool of the xfsprogs suite did not fully adhere to the standards of obfuscation described in its man page. In case a user with the necessary privileges used xfsmetadump and relied on the advertised obfuscation, the generated data could contain unexpected...

qemu -- denial of service vulnerability in Q35 chipset emulation

Prasad J Pandit, Red Hat Product Security Team, reports: Qemu emulator built with the Q35 chipset based pc system emulator is vulnerable to a heap based buffer overflow. It occurs during VM guest migration, as more16 bytes data is moved into allocated 8 bytes memory area. A privileged guest user...

broadcast-sonicwall-discover NSE Script

Discovers Sonicwall firewalls which are directly attached not routed using the same method as the manufacturers own 'SetupTool'. An interface needs to be configured, as the script broadcasts a UDP packet. The script needs to be run as a privileged user, typically root. References: Script Argument...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kvm on SL5.x x86_64 (20151022)

A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in the way QEMU's NE2000 NIC emulation implementation handled certain packets received over the network. A privileged user inside a guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU instance denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host...

kmod, kvm security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2015:1925 Updated kvm packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm security update

Updated qemu-kvm packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kvm security update

Updated kvm packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from t...

Microsoft VBScript and JScript CVE-2015-6052 ASLR Security Bypass Vulnerability

Description Microsoft VBScript and JScript are prone to a security-bypass vulnerability. An attacker can leverage this issue to bypass certain security restrictions and execute arbitrary code by exploiting another vulnerability in the application. Technologies Affected Microsoft Internet Explorer...

QEMU ne2000_receive() Denial of Service Vulnerability

QEMU is an open source emulator software. A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in QEMU's ne2000receive, which allows a privileged user on a local Guest system to crash a QEMU instance...