glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update

2.17-157 - Rebuild with updated binutils 1268008 2.17-156 - malloc arena free free list management fix 1276753 2.17-155 - Basic validity check for locale-archive.tmpl 1350733 2.17-153 - Add Intel AVX-512 optimized routines 1298526. 2.17-151 - Improve malloc peformance in low-memory situations...

USN-3070-3: Linux kernel (Qualcomm Snapdragon) vulnerabilities

A missing permission check when settings ACLs was discovered in nfsd. A local user could exploit this flaw to gain access to any file by setting an ACL. CVE-2016-1237 Kangjie Lu discovered an information leak in the Reliable Datagram Sockets RDS implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacke...

USN-3057-1: Linux kernel (Qualcomm Snapdragon) vulnerabilities

Ben Hawkes discovered an integer overflow in the Linux netfilter implementation. On systems running 32 bit kernels, a local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges. CVE-2016-3135 It was...

Debian DLA-571-1 : xen security update (Bunker Buster)

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : CVE-2014-3672 XSA-180 Andrew Sorensen discovered that a HVM domain can exhaust the hosts disk space by filling up the log file. CVE-2016-3158,...

Japan's Softbank buys semiconductor giant ARM for $32 Billion in Cash

Japanese telecommunication giant SoftBank has confirmed that the company intends to acquire UK chip designer ARM Holdings for almost $32 Billion £24.3 Billion in an all-cash deal. ARM has also agreed to this offer from SoftBank and said that its board would recommend the all-cash deal to...

China develops the World's Most Powerful Supercomputer without US chips

China beats its own record with the World's fastest supercomputer. Sunway TaihuLight, a newly built supercomputer from China, now ranks as the world's most powerful machine. During the International Supercomputer Conference in Germany on Monday, Top500 declared China's 10.65 Million-core Sunway...

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[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: i7z-0.27.2-16.20150629gitec09c4f.fc24

i7z is a CLI curses based monitoring tool for Intel Core i7, i5 and i3 processors...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: i7z-0.27.2-16.20150629gitec09c4f.fc23

i7z is a CLI curses based monitoring tool for Intel Core i7, i5 and i3 processors...

Debian DSA-3554-1 : xen - security update

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2016-3158, CVE-2016-3159 XSA-172 Jan Beulich from SUSE discovered that Xen does not properly handle writes to the hardware FSW.ES bit whe...

[SECURITY] [DSA 3554-1] xen security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3554-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso April 21, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3554-1 (xen - security update)

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen hypervisor. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2016-3158, CVE-2016-3159 XSA-172 Jan Beulich from SUSE discovered that Xen does not properly handle writes to the hardware FSW.ES bit when...

DSA-3554-1 xen - security update

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CVE-2016-3159

The fpufxrstor function in arch/x86/i387.c in Xen 4.x does not properly handle writes to the hardware FSW.ES bit when running on AMD64 processors, which allows local guest OS users to obtain sensitive register content information from another guest by leveraging pending exception and mask bits...

CVE-2016-3158

The xrstor function in arch/x86/xstate.c in Xen 4.x does not properly handle writes to the hardware FSW.ES bit when running on AMD64 processors, which allows local guest OS users to obtain sensitive register content information from another guest by leveraging pending exception and mask bits. NOT...

Design/Logic Flaw

The fpufxrstor function in arch/x86/i387.c in Xen 4.x does not properly handle writes to the hardware FSW.ES bit when running on AMD64 processors, which allows local guest OS users to obtain sensitive register content information from another guest by leveraging pending exception and mask bits...

Information disclosure

The xrstor function in arch/x86/xstate.c in Xen 4.x does not properly handle writes to the hardware FSW.ES bit when running on AMD64 processors, which allows local guest OS users to obtain sensitive register content information from another guest by leveraging pending exception and mask bits. NOT...

CVE-2016-3158

The xrstor function in arch/x86/xstate.c in Xen 4.x does not properly handle writes to the hardware FSW.ES bit when running on AMD64 processors, which allows local guest OS users to obtain sensitive register content information from another guest by leveraging pending exception and mask bits. NOT...

CVE-2016-3159

The fpufxrstor function in arch/x86/i387.c in Xen 4.x does not properly handle writes to the hardware FSW.ES bit when running on AMD64 processors, which allows local guest OS users to obtain sensitive register content information from another guest by leveraging pending exception and mask bits...

CVE-2016-3158

The xrstor function in arch/x86/xstate.c in Xen 4.x does not properly handle writes to the hardware FSW.ES bit when running on AMD64 processors, which allows local guest OS users to obtain sensitive register content information from another guest by leveraging pending exception and mask bits. NOT...