QEMU: improper IDE controller reset can lead to MBR overwrite

A bug in QEMU could cause a guest I/O operation otherwise addressed to an arbitrary disk offset to be targeted to offset 0 instead potentially overwriting the VM's boot code. This could be used, for example, by L2 guests with a virtual disk vdiskL2 stored on a virtual disk of an L1 vdiskL1...

Travel to the dark of the door! Debugee in QEMU-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

I haven't to secure guest posting, just recently the contact vulnerability discovery, and have been reading some of the classic fuzzer source code, at the same time also began to contact the virtualization escape this piece of content, at this time happened to come across two very classic exploit...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3014-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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...

USN-3014-1 spice vulnerabilities

Jing Zhao discovered that the Spice smartcard support incorrectly handled memory. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Spice to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 15.10 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. CVE-2016-0749...

USN-2766-1 spice vulnerabilities

Frediano Ziglio discovered multiple buffer overflows, undefined behavior signed integer operations, race conditions, memory leaks, and denial of service issues in Spice. A malicious guest operating system could potentially exploit these issues to escape virtualization. CVE-2015-5260, CVE-2015-526...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Spice vulnerabilities (USN-2766-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2766-1 advisory. Frediano Ziglio discovered multiple buffer overflows, undefined behavior signed integer operations, race conditions, memory leaks, and denial of service...