CVE-2016-7488

Teradata Virtual Machine Community Edition v15.10 has insecure file permissions on /etc/luminex/pkgmgr. These could allow a local user to modify its contents and execute commands as root...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: xen-4.5.5-3.fc23

This package contains the XenD daemon and xm command line tools, needed to manage virtual machines running under the Xen hypervisor...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: libguestfs and virt-p2v security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for libguestfs and virt-p2v is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each...

Kernel: powerpc: kvm: Infinite loop via H_CEDE hypercall when running under hypervisor-mode

arch/powerpc/kvm/book3shvrmhandlers.S in the Linux kernel through 4.7 on PowerPC platforms, when CONFIGKVMBOOK3S64HV is enabled, allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS infinite loop by making a HCEDE hypercall during the existence of a suspended transaction...

CVE-2016-5555

Unspecified vulnerability in the OJVM component in Oracle Database Server 11.2.0.4 and 12.1.0.2 allows remote administrators to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors...

CFME: bypass authorization by altering VM ID

It was found that the CloudForms did not properly apply permissions controls to VM IDs passed by users. A remote, authenticated attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary VMs on systems managed by CloudForms if they know the ID of the VM...

Unspecified Vulnerability in Oracle Database Server OJVM Component (CNVD-2016-09796)

Oracle Database Server is the United States Oracle Oracle company's set of relational database management system. OJVM Oracle Java Virtual Machine is one of the execution of Java byte code virtual machine components. A local security vulnerability exists in the OJVM component of Oracle Database...

The vulnerability of the Mac OS X operating system, which allows a perpetrator to obtain confidential information

The vulnerability of the mDNSResponder component in the Mac OS X operating system is related to the use of DNS proxies to listen to all interfaces when using VMnet.framework. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to obtain confidential information by sending DNS requests to...

Set the device_id param on virtual machine

How to set the deviceid param on virtual machine...

Error: "xenopsd internal error: Unix.Unix_error(Unix.ENODEV, "write", "") importing VM on XenServer

After exporting a VM into an xva format and trying to import the VM, VM import is successful, but when trying to start the VM, it fails with the following error in the /var/log/xensource.log xenopsd internal error: Unix.UnixerrorUnix.ENODEV, "write", ""...

How to Capture a Network Trace from a XenServer Physical Interface, Virtual Bridge, and VM Virtual Interface

This article describes how to capture a network trace from a XenServer physical interface, Virtual Bridge, and Virtual Machine Virtual Interface...

kvm security update

83-276.0.1.el511 - Added kvm-add-oracle-workaround-for-libvirt-bug.patch - Added kvm-Introduce-oel-machine-type.patch 83-275.el511 - kvm-virtio-error-out-if-guest-exceeds-virtqueue-size.patch bz1359723 - Resolves: bz1359723 CVE-2016-5403 kvm: Qemu: virtio: unbounded memory allocation on host via...

Malware Evades Detection with Novel Technique

Researchers have found a new strain of document-based macro malware that evades discovery by lying dormant when it detects a security researcher’s test environment. The malware, according to researcher Caleb Fenton with security firm SentinelOne, evades detection simply by counting the number of...

Error: "Object with type VM vbd.hdb does not exist in xenopsd" during VM Migration

When trying to migrate virtual machine, it fails with following error Error: "Object with type VM vbd.hdb does not exist in xenopsd"...

Multiple VMware Workstation Product Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

VMWare Workstation is a suite of desktop virtual computer software. A heap buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Windows-based Virtual Machine in VMware Workstation, which can be exploited by an attacker on a Windows platform to crash an application or execute arbitrary code...

VMSA-2016-0014:VMware ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, and Tools updates address multiple security issues

VMSA-2016-0014.1 VMware ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, and Tools updates address multiple security issues VMware Security Advisory VMware Security Advisory Advisory ID: VMSA-2016-0014.1 VMware Security Advisory Severity: Critical VMware Security Advisory Synopsis: VMware ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, an...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7156

The pvscsiconvertsglist function in hw/scsi/vmwpvscsi.c in QEMU aka Quick Emulator allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service infinite loop and QEMU process crash by leveraging an incorrect cast...

Microsoft Azure Cloud Security Auditing: Azurite

Microsoft Azure Cloud Security Auditing Auditing Cloud services has become an essential task and significant effort is required to assess the security of the available resources. Azurite was developed to assist penetration testers and auditors during the enumeration and reconnaissance activities...

Cloud Security Series: 360GearTeam again found QEMU multiple vulnerabilities-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! 2 0 1 6 years and 8 months or so, the odd Tiger 3 6 0 to the QEMU official report a number of QEMU vulnerabilities in. They allow an attacker to attack a virtual machine or the host machine itself, causing a denial of service or arbitrary code execution. 360GearTeamoriginal 3 6 0 cloud security...

Facebook HHVM has multiple vulnerabilities (CNVD-2016-06542)

Facebook HHVM aka HipHop Virtual Machine is a virtual machine from Facebook that significantly improves the performance of loading dynamic pages in PHP. An integer overflow vulnerability and a denial of service vulnerability exists in Facebook HHVM. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to...