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Robbie

Robbie

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Robbie
13 May 2015

Ubuntu Security Update on VENOM (CVE-2015-3456) [UPDATED]

Ubuntu Ubuntu Advantage

A buffer overflow in the virtual floppy disk controller of QEMU has been discovered. An attacker could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash or execute arbitrary code in the host’s QEMU process. This issue is mitigated in a couple ways on Ubuntu when using libvirt to manage QEMU virtual machines, which includes OpenStack’s ...


Robbie
16 October 2014

Ubuntu Security Update on Poodle (CVE-2014-3566) and SSLv3 Downgrade Attack

Ubuntu Ubuntu Advantage

The following is an update on Ubuntu’s response to the latest Internet emergency security issue, POODLE (CVE-2014-3566), in combination with an SSLv3 downgrade vulnerability. Vulnerability Summary “SSL 3.0 is an obsolete and insecure protocol. While for most practical purposes it has been replaced by its successors TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1, and T ...