Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2012-0350)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2012-0350 advisory. - fs xfs: Fix missing xfsiunlock on error recovery path in xfsreadlink Carlos Maiolino 749161 694702 CVE-2011-4077 - fs xfs: Fix memory corruption in...

Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2013-0630)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2013-0630 advisory. - kernel utrace: ensure archptrace/ptracerequest can never race with SIGKILL Oleg Nesterov 912073 912074 CVE-2013-0871 - x86 msr: Add capabilities chec...

kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

2.6.32-358.11.1 - kernel perf: fix perfsweventenabled array out-of-bound access Petr Matousek 962793 962794 CVE-2013-2094 2.6.32-358.10.1 - scsi be2iscsi : Fix the NOP-In handling code path Nikola Pajkovsky 955504 947550 - scsi be2iscsi: Fix memory leak in control path of driver Rob Evers 955504...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-358.6.1 - virt kvm: accept unaligned MSRKVMSYSTEMTIME writes Petr Matousek 917020 917021 CVE-2013-1796 - char tty: hold lock across tty buffer finding and buffer filling Prarit Bhargava 928686 901780 - net tcp: fix for zero packetsinflight was too broad Thomas Graf 927309 920794 - net tcp:...

kernel security and bug fix update

kernel 2.6.18-348.4.1.0.1 - oprofile x86, mm: Add getuserpagesfast orabug 14277030 - oprofile export getuserpagesfast function orabug 14277030 - oprofile oprofile, x86: Fix nmi-unsafe callgraph support orabug 14277030 - oprofile oprofile: use KMNMI slot for kmapatomic orabug 14277030 - oprofile...

kernel security and bug fix update

kernel 2.6.18-348.4.1 - virt xen-netback: backports Andrew Jones 910884 910885 CVE-2013-0216 - virt xen-netback: netifschedulable should take a netif Andrew Jones 910884 910885 CVE-2013-0216 - virt pciback: rate limit error mess from pcibackenablemsi Igor Mammedov 910876 910877 CVE-2013-0231 - ne...

CVE-2013-1798

The CVE-2013-1798 entry concerns the Linux kernel’s ioapic_read_indirect() in virt/kvm/ioapic.c up to version 3.8.4. A particular sequence of invalid IOAPIC_REG_SELECT/IOAPIC_REG_WINDOW operations can allow a privileged guest OS user to read sensitive host memory or trigger a host OOPS, per multi...

CVE-2013-1798

The ioapicreadindirect function in virt/kvm/ioapic.c in the Linux kernel through 3.8.4 does not properly handle a certain combination of invalid IOAPICREGSELECT and IOAPICREGWINDOW operations, which allows guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from host OS memory or cause a denial of...

CVE-2013-1798: Improper Input Validation

The ioapicreadindirect function in virt/kvm/ioapic.c in the Linux kernel through 3.8.4 does not properly handle a certain combination of invalid IOAPICREGSELECT and IOAPICREGWINDOW operations, which allows guest OS users to obtain sensitive information from host OS memory or cause a denial of...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-358.2.1 - kernel utrace: ensure archptrace/ptracerequest can never race with SIGKILL Oleg Nesterov 912073 912074 CVE-2013-0871 2.6.32-358.1.1 - netdrv mlx4: Set number of msix vectors under SRIOV mode to firmware defaults Michal Schmidt 911663 904726 - netdrv mlx4: Fix bridged vSwitch...

RHEL 6 : libguestfs (RHSA-2012:0774)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2012:0774 advisory. libguestfs is a library for accessing and modifying guest disk images. It was found that editing files with virt-edit left said files in a...

RHEL 6 : virt-v2v (RHSA-2011:1615)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2011:1615 advisory. - virt-v2v: vnc password protection is missing after vm conversion CVE-2011-1773 Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relie...

CVE-2012-2137: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Buffer overflow in virt/kvm/irqcomm.c in the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.2.24 allows local users to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to Message Signaled Interrupts MSI, irq routing entries, and an incorrect check by the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: virt-viewer-0.5.3-6.fc18

Virtual Machine Viewer provides a graphical console client for connecting to virtual machines. It uses the GTK-VNC or SPICE-GTK widgets to provide the display, and libvirt for looking up VNC/SPICE server details...

PT-2012-1058

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions virt-manager affected versions not specified Xen versions 3.3 and 4.x Description The issue is related to a potential denial of service, where exploitation can lead to a disruption in the availability of protected information. This can be...

CVE-2012-3447: Undefined Security Weakness

virt/disk/api.py in OpenStack Compute Nova 2012.1.x before 2012.1.2 and Folsom before Folsom-3 allows remote authenticated users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in an image that uses a symlink that is only readable by root. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an...

Scientific Linux Security Update : virt-v2v on SL6.x x86_64

virt-v2v is a tool for converting and importing virtual machines to libvirt-managed KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine. Using virt-v2v to convert a guest that has a password-protected VNC console to a KVM guest removed that password protection from the converted guest: after conversion, a password...

CVE-2012-3360

Directory traversal vulnerability in virt/disk/api.py in OpenStack Compute Nova Folsom 2012.2 and Essex 2012.1, when used over libvirt-based hypervisors, allows remote authenticated users to write arbitrary files to the disk image via a .. dot dot in the path attribute of a file element...

CVE-2012-3361

virt/disk/api.py in OpenStack Compute Nova Folsom 2012.2, Essex 2012.1, and Diablo 2011.3 allows remote authenticated users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a file in an image...

PT-2012-6314

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenStack Compute Nova versions 2012.1 through 2012.2 Description A directory traversal issue exists when OpenStack Compute Nova is used over libvirt-based hypervisors. This allows remote authenticated users to write arbitrary files to the dis...