USN-2779-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not check if a new IPv6 MTU set by a user space application was valid. A remote attacker could forge a route advertisement with an invalid MTU that a user space daemon like NetworkManager would honor and apply to the kernel, causing a denial of service...

USN-2778-1 linux-lts-vivid vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not check if a new IPv6 MTU set by a user space application was valid. A remote attacker could forge a route advertisement with an invalid MTU that a user space daemon like NetworkManager would honor and apply to the kernel, causing a denial of service...

USN-2778-1: Linux kernel (Vivid HWE) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not check if a new IPv6 MTU set by a user space application was valid. A remote attacker could forge a route advertisement with an invalid MTU that a user space daemon like NetworkManager would honor and apply to the kernel, causing a denial of service...

USN-2777-1 linux-lts-utopic vulnerabilities

It was discovered that virtio networking in the Linux kernel did not handle fragments correctly, leading to kernel memory corruption. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute code with administrative privileges. CVE-2015-5156 Benjamin Randazzo...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux vulnerabilities (USN-2773-1)

It was discovered that virtio networking in the Linux kernel did not handle fragments correctly, leading to kernel memory corruption. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute code with administrative privileges. CVE-2015-5156 It was discovered...

USN-2776-1 linux vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not check if a new IPv6 MTU set by a user space application was valid. A remote attacker could forge a route advertisement with an invalid MTU that a user space daemon like NetworkManager would honor and apply to the kernel, causing a denial of service...

USN-2775-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not check if a new IPv6 MTU set by a user space application was valid. A remote attacker could forge a route advertisement with an invalid MTU that a user space daemon like NetworkManager would honor and apply to the kernel, causing a denial of service...

USN-2774-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that virtio networking in the Linux kernel did not handle fragments correctly, leading to kernel memory corruption. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly execute code with administrative privileges. CVE-2015-5156 It was discovered...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-5156

The virtnetprobe function in drivers/net/virtionet.c in the Linux kernel before 4.2 attempts to support a FRAGLIST feature without proper memory allocation, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service buffer overflow and memory corruption via a crafted sequence of fragmented packets...

Updated qemu packages fixes security vulnerabilities

Qinghao Tang of QIHU 360 Inc. discovered an infinite loop issue in the NE2000 NIC emulation. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to mount a denial of service QEMU process crash. CVE-2015-5278 Qinghao Tang of QIHU 360 Inc. discovered a heap buffer overflow flaw in the NE2000 NIC emulation....

MGASA-2015-0397 Updated qemu packages fixes security vulnerabilities

Qinghao Tang of QIHU 360 Inc. discovered an infinite loop issue in the NE2000 NIC emulation. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to mount a denial of service QEMU process crash. CVE-2015-5278 Qinghao Tang of QIHU 360 Inc. discovered a heap buffer overflow flaw in the NE2000 NIC emulation....

Oracle: Security Advisory (ELSA-2011-1849)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

qemu -- denial of service vulnerability in virtio-net support

Prasad J Pandit, Red Hat Product Security Team, reports: Qemu emulator built with the Virtual Network Devicevirtio-net support is vulnerable to a DoS issue. It could occur while receiving large packets over the tuntap/macvtap interfaces and when guest's virtio-net driver did not support...

Debian DSA-3348-1 : qemu - security update

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in qemu, a fast processor emulator. - CVE-2015-3214 Matt Tait of Google's Project Zero security team discovered a flaw in the QEMU i8254 PIT emulation. A privileged guest user in a guest with QEMU PIT emulation enabled could potentially use this flaw to...

Debian DSA-3349-1 : qemu-kvm - security update

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in qemu-kvm, a full virtualization solution on x86 hardware. - CVE-2015-5165 Donghai Zhu discovered that the QEMU model of the RTL8139 network card did not sufficiently validate inputs in the C+ mode offload emulation, allowing a malicious guest to read...

[SECURITY] [DSA 3348-1] qemu security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3348-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso September 02, 2015 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Fedora 21 : qemu-2.1.3-9.fc21 (2015-13404)

Fix crash in qemuspicecreatedisplay bz 1163047 CVE-2015-3209: pcnet: multi-tmd buffer overflow in the tx path bz 1230536 CVE-2015-3214: i8254: out-of-bounds memory access bz 1243728 CVE-2015-5154: ide: atapi: heap overflow during I/O buffer memory access bz 1247141 CVE-2015-5745: buffer overflow...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : QEMU vulnerabilities (USN-2724-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2724-1 advisory. It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled a PRDT with zero complete sectors in the IDE functionality. A malicious guest could possibly use this iss...

USN-2724-1 qemu, qemu-kvm vulnerabilities

It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled a PRDT with zero complete sectors in the IDE functionality. A malicious guest could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. CVE-2014-9718 Donghai Zhu discovered that QEMU...

Fedora 23 : qemu-2.4.0-1.fc23 (2015-13358)

Rebased to version 2.4.0 Support for virtio-gpu, 2D only Support for virtio-based keyboard/mouse/tablet emulation x86 support for memory hot-unplug - ACPI v5.1 table support for 'virt' board CVE-2015-3209: pcnet: multi-tmd buffer overflow in the tx path bz 1230536 CVE-2015-3214: i8254: out-of-...