How to create a raw VDI on XenServer ?

Sometimes when performance is important over other functionalities like snapshot fast clone which are provided by the VHD layer, we need to create raw VDI...

SUSE-SU-2015:0871-1 Recommended update for clamav

The antivirus scanner ClamAV has been updated to version 0.98.3, which includes the following fixes and enhancements: Support for common raw disk image formats using 512 byte sectors, specifically GPT, APM, and MBR partitioning. All ClamAV sockets clamd, freshclam, clamav-milter, clamdscan,...

CVE-2013-1922

qemu-nbd in QEMU, as used in Xen 4.2.x, determines the format of a raw disk image based on the header, which allows local guest OS administrators to read arbitrary files on the host by modifying the header to identify a different format, which is used when the guest is restarted, a different...

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qemu-nbd in QEMU, as used in Xen 4.2.x, determines the format of a raw disk image based on the header, which allows local guest OS administrators to read arbitrary files on the host by modifying the header to identify a different format, which is used when the guest is restarted, a different...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : qemu (MDVSA-2008:162)

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Qemu. Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the cirrusinvalidateregion function in the Cirrus VGA extension in QEMU 0.8.2, as used in Xen and possibly other products, might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors related to...

Mandriva Update for qemu MDVSA-2008:162 (qemu)

Check for the Version of qemu OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Mandriva Update for qemu MDVSA-2008:162 qemu Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...

Mandriva Update for qemu MDVSA-2008:162 (qemu)

Check for the Version of qemu OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Mandriva Update for qemu MDVSA-2008:162 qemu Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...

qemu/kvm/xen: qemu block format auto-detection vulnerability

The driveinit function in QEMU 0.9.1 determines the format of a raw disk image based on the header, which allows local guest users to read arbitrary files on the host by modifying the header to identify a different format, which is used when the guest is restarted...

DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2004

The driveinit function in QEMU 0.9.1 determines the format of a raw disk image based on the header, which allows local guest users to read arbitrary files on the host by modifying the header to identify a different format, which is used when the guest is restarted...

CVE-2008-2004

CVE-2008-2004 concerns QEMU up to 0.9.1 where drive_init determines the raw-disk image format from the header. By altering the header to identify a different format, a local guest user can cause the host to disclose arbitrary host files when the guest is restarted. The vulnerability is tied to QE...