Veeam doesn't clean up temporary datastore in vSphere after restore from NetApp storage snapshot

Challenge After completing one of the restore options available for NetApp storage snapshot, you may notice that the temporary datastore under the name "snap--" is still mounted on the ESXi hosts with inactive status. See the screenshot below for an example: After a manual rescan of the storage...

Fedora 21 : qemu-2.1.2-2.fc21 (2014-11588)

Rebased to version 2.1.2 - CVE-2014-3640 qemu: slirp: NULL pointer bz 1144821, bz 1144818 - Add Requires seabios = 1.7.5, otherwise Windows virtio booting does not work. - Add Requires seabios = 1.7.5, otherwise Windows virtio booting does not work. - Fix crash on migration/snapshot bz 1144490...

Entire VM restore fails with 'An error occurred while taking a snapshot: Error.'

Challenge Entire VM Restore fails with: An error occurred while taking a snapshot: Error. Cause This can occur when a workingDir entry in the VMX causes the VM to attempt to direct snapshots to a different datastore that is not present in the site where the restore is taking place. Solution To...

CVE-2014-3559: Undefined Security Weakness

The oVirt storage backend in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.4 does not wipe memory snapshots when deleting a VM, even when wipe-after-delete WAD is configured for the VM's disk, which allows remote authenticated users with certain credentials to read portions of the deleted VM's memory and...

WordPress Snapshot Theme - Remote Code Execution

There are a bug in this theme, that allows any website visitor to run and see the output of any shortcode. This gives unauthenticated visitors the same power to execute code on the server as regular publishers have. Solution Update the theme...

ppc64-diag: fix for tmp races and information disclosure (important)

ppc64-diag was updated to fix tmp race issues CVE-2014-4038 and a file disclosure problem in snapshot tarball generation CVE-2014-4039...

CVE-2014-2356

Innominate mGuard before 7.6.4 and 8.x before 8.0.3 does not require authentication for snapshot downloads, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted HTTPS request...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

Innominate mGuard before 7.6.4 and 8.x before 8.0.3 does not require authentication for snapshot downloads, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted HTTPS request...

CVE-2014-2356

CVE-2014-2356 affects Innominate mGuard devices. Affected firmware prior to 7.6.4 and 8.x before 8.0.3 allow remote attackers to download configuration snapshots via a crafted HTTPS request without authentication, enabling unauthorized information disclosure (network exposure). The ICS-CERT advis...

PT-2014-4645

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Innominate mGuard versions prior to 7.6.4 Innominate mGuard versions 8.x prior to 8.0.3 Description The issue allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information without requiring authentication for snapshot downloads. This can be achieved...

Using the vSphere MOB (Managed Object Browser) to Troubleshoot Snapshot Creation

Purpose This article documents the procedure for manually creating a vSphere VM snapshot using the Managed Object Browser MOB. Solution Start by identifying the Managed Object Reference-ID MORef-ID of the VM for which the snapshot will be created. If the VM is being protected by Veeam Backup &...

Microsoft Access 97/2000/2002 Snapshot Viewer ActiveX Control Parameter Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8536/info Microsoft Access Snapshot Viewer is prone to a remote buffer-overflow condition because the software fails to perform sufficient boundary checks on user-supplied parameters. Presumably, a remote attacker may be...

USN-2247-1: OpenStack Nova vulnerabilities

Darragh O'Reilly discovered that the Ubuntu packaging for OpenStack Nova did not properly set up its sudo configuration. If a different flaw was found in OpenStack Nova, this vulnerability could be used to escalate privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 13.10 and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS...

VMware high latency feature resets to 'normal' after snapshot removal

Challenge The Latency Sensitivity option resets to 'normal' after VMware snapshot removal. This behavior persists regardless of any settings. Cause This is a known issue in ESXi 5.5.x. Please see the following KB article for more information: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2079787 Solution This issue wi...

openSUSE Security Update : kvm (openSUSE-SU-2012:0832-1)

fix vulnerability to temporary file symlink attacks in snapshot file mode. bnc764526 CVE-2012-2652 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE Security Update openSUSE-2012-364. The text description of...

Qemu: block: multiple integer overflow flaws

Multiple integer overflows in the block drivers in QEMU, possibly before 2.0.0, allow local users to cause a denial of service crash via a crafted catalog size in 1 the parallelsopen function in block/parallels.c or 2 bochsopen function in bochs.c, a large L1 table in the 3 qcow2snapshotloadtmp i...

Qemu: qcow2: NULL dereference in qcow2_open() error path

The qcow2open function in the block/qcow2.c in QEMU before 1.7.2 and 2.x before 2.0.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference via a crafted image which causes an error, related to the initialization of the snapshotoffset and nbsnapshots fields...

Qemu: prevent possible buffer overflows

Multiple buffer overflows in QEMU before 1.7.2 and 2.x before 2.0.0, allow local users to cause a denial of service crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a large 1 L1 table in the qcow2snapshotloadtmp in the QCOW 2 block driver block/qcow2-snapshot.c or 2 uncompressed chunk, 3 chunk length...

Qemu: block: possible crash due signed types or logic error

Qemu before 1.6.2 block diver for the various disk image formats used by Bochs and for the QCOW version 2 format, are vulnerable to a possible crash caused by signed data types or a logic error while creating QCOW2 snapshots, which leads to incorrectly calling updaterefcount routine...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-0178

Samba 3.6.6 through 3.6.23, 4.0.x before 4.0.18, and 4.1.x before 4.1.8, when a certain vfs shadow copy configuration is enabled, does not properly initialize the SRVSNAPSHOTARRAY response field, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain potentially sensitive information from process memo...