Windows Hyper-V Shared Virtual Disk Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

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PT-2022-16715 · Starwind · Starwind Stack +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: StarWind SAN and NAS version 0.2 build 1633 Description: A flaw was found in the REST API in StarWind Stack, where the REST command that manipulates a virtual disk does not check input parameters. Some of these parameters are directly execute...

Security Bulletin: IBM Storage Support for Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and Virtual Disk Service (VDS) is affected by a vulnerability in Apache Log4j (CVE-2021-4104)

Summary A vulnerability was identified within the Apache Log4j library that is used by IBM Storage Support for Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service VSS and Virtual Disk Service VDS for IBM Spectrum Virtualize family and IBM DS8000 family storage systems. This vulnerability has been addressed...

Cannot edit configuration of VMware VM via ESXi after Instant Recovery from Veeam Agent backup

Challenge When you complete Instant VM Recovery from the Veeam Agent backup, then try to edit the VM configuration via ESXi, the following error occurs: "Enter a disk size which is larger than its original capacity." Then you try to edit the decimal virtual disk size via ESXi, and another error...

Hyper-V guest may freeze when it is running failover cluster service together with shared VHDX in Windows Server 2012 R2

Hyper-V guest may freeze when it is running failover cluster service together with shared VHDX in Windows Server 2012 R2 This article describes an issue that occurs when a Hyper-V guest is running failover cluster service together with a shared virtual hard disk VHDX in Windows Server 2012 R2...

Cannot create App Layering image for MCS in Azure, hangs during Windows Setup.

To deploy an MCS image to Azure, you decide to use the Azure connector in App Layering. This produces a virtual disk that is primed to run through Windows Setup. You attach it to a VM, power it on, and find that Windows Setup never completes. If you look at the console screen shot in the debuggin...

Failed to mount Elastic Layers, "A virtual disk support provider for the specified file was not found."

When using Elastic or User Layers, they do not get attached to the end-user VM when the user logs in. Checking C:\ProgramData\Unidesk\Logs\Ulayersvc.log, you see an error like this: 2018-07-19 13:02:25,804 ERROR 16 CompositingManager: Caught exception:...

Provisioning Services : Unable to stream vDisk with message "No disk available for device"

When booting a target, after downloading the bootstrap and connecting to Provisioning Services, we see the message: "No disk available for device."...

Error: "This Operation Cannot be Performed Because a VDI is in Use by Some Other Operation"

Starting vm fail unable to find the disk OR Unable to start a VM error : "this operation cannot be performed because a VDI is in use by some other operation" OR Unable to start a VM , error : "The SR failed to complete the operation" OR Unable to start the VM , error : "This operation cannot be...

Cannot power on CachePoint, "Cannot open the disk 'UnideskLayers/..."

After host or storage failure, you may find that one or more CachePoints CP will not longer boot. The error message given by vCenter is: An error was received from the ESX host while powering on VM CP01. Cannot open the disk 'UnideskLayers/User/Desktop3/P14407081000000d8.B0.R1.V0-000001.vmdk' or...

Google Kubernetes Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Google Kubernetes is an open source Docker container cluster management system from Google, Inc. The system provides resource scheduling, deployment and operation, service discovery and scaling up and down for containerized applications. A security vulnerability exists in Google Kubernetes, which...

PVS Target device boot up stuck at "Starting Windows" or "virtual disk found"

PVS Target device boot up stuck at 'Starting Windows' forever. Most of the time reboot the problem VM from the hypervisor the VM can boot up without issue. Also we could see the PVS Target device boot up stuck at 'vDisk found'...

How to resolve "Failed to probe partitions from virtual disk" error while importing an OS Layer

When importing an OS layer, you get this error: Failed to attach the disk /mnt/repository/Unidesk/OsImport Disks/Windows 10.vhd. Failed to probe partitions from virtual disk This is most often seen when importing a XenServer Windows 10 Gold VM that was exported as an OVF. However, it could happen...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : open-vm-tools (SUSE-SU-2017:0705-1)

This update for open-vm-tools to 10.1.0 stable brings features, fixes bugs and security issues : - New vmware-namespace-cmd command line utility - GTK3 support - Common Agent Framework CAF - Guest authentication with xmlsec1 - Sub-command to push updated network information to the host on demand ...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : open-vm-tools (SUSE-SU-2017:0701-1)

This update for open-vm-tools to 10.1.0 stable brings features, fixes bugs and security issues : - New vmware-namespace-cmd command line utility - GTK3 support - Common Agent Framework CAF - Guest authentication with xmlsec1 - Sub-command to push updated network information to the host on demand ...

openSUSE Security Update : open-vm-tools (openSUSE-2017-276)

This update for open-vm-tools fixes the following issues : - Updated to 10.1.0 stable release boo1011057 + vmware-namespace-cmd command line utility. + gtk3 support + Common Agent Framework CAF + guest authentication with xmlsec1 + FreeBSD support + sub-command to push updated network information...

The vulnerability of the Windows operating system, which allows a hacker to increase their privileges

The vulnerability of the Windows operating system’s virtual hard disk driver stems from an improper restriction on access to files. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a local attacker to enhance their privileges through a specially created application...

Failed to convert vdisk with error message "BNIStack failed, network stack could not be initialized"

Target device unable to startup with error "BNIStack failed, network stack could not be initialized"...

Error: "Virtual Disk is Owned By Control Domain" in XenServer

- Storage Repository shows a virtual disk attached to a "Control Domain" - VDIs cannot be deleted with errors that the VDI is not managed by this host. - Multipathing cannot be enable on the SR because the VDIs are not managed by this host...

How to Reverse Image from a Virtual Disk to a Local Hard Disk with VMware ESX4

This article contains information about how to reverse an image from a virtual disk to a local hard disk with VMware ESX4. Background It is often necessary in a Provisioning Services environment to reverse an image to install a Citrix hotfix, change a driver, or do certain other tasks.To achieve...