CVE-2014-1896

The 1 dosend and 2 dorecv functions in io.c in libvchan in Xen 4.2.x, 4.3.x, and 4.4-RC series allows local guests to cause a denial of service or possibly gain privileges via crafted xenstore ring indexes, which triggers a "read or write past the end of the ring."...

Linux Kernel 3.1 RC2 Released

Linux Kernel 3.1 RC2 Released Linus Torvalds has announced the release of Linux kernel 3.1 rc2. There isn't too much to see and Linus notes that this is a fairly calm release for coming just one week after the close of the Linux 3.1 kernel merge window. As LKML is down at the moment, below is the...