[Woc-notify] [nitc] VENOM vulnerability

Brian Hart brianhart at ou.edu
Thu May 14 14:42:10 UTC 2015


For those using proxmox, they are aware of it as well and released a patch
to their "pve-test" repository.

http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/22127-Venom-vulnerablity
On May 14, 2015 8:40 AM, "Laws, Peter C." <plaws at ou.edu> wrote:

> VirtualBox/Mac didn't have an update last night but they do now.
>
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> ________________________________________
> From: Skaggs, Gary A. [gskaggs at ou.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 20:19
> To: NITC Distribution List
> Subject: [nitc] FW: VENOM vulnerability
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> For all of you running VMs, a good/timely read.
>
> Gary
>
>
> From: <Kurz>, "Kenneth J." <kkurz at ou.edu<mailto:kkurz at ou.edu>>
> Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 at 7:32 PM
> To: Norman-Networking <network at ou.edu<mailto:network at ou.edu>>, "Security
> (Norman)" <security at ou.edu<mailto:security at ou.edu>>, unix_group <
> unix at ou.edu<mailto:unix at ou.edu>>, "Steward, Shad (HSC)" <
> Shad-Steward at ouhsc.edu<mailto:Shad-Steward at ouhsc.edu>>, "Saliba, Dana M.
> (HSC)" <Dana-Saliba at ouhsc.edu<mailto:Dana-Saliba at ouhsc.edu>>, "Moore,
> Randy W. (HSC)" <Randy-Moore at ouhsc.edu<mailto:Randy-Moore at ouhsc.edu>>,
> "Smith, Bryan E. (IT) (HSC)" <Bryan-E-Smith at ouhsc.edu<mailto:
> Bryan-E-Smith at ouhsc.edu>>, "Bighorse, Aaron L." <bighorse at ou.edu<mailto:
> bighorse at ou.edu>>, "George, Kendall A." <kendallg at ou.edu<mailto:
> kendallg at ou.edu>>
> Subject: VENOM vulnerability
>
> All,
>
> Attached is the best summary I’ve seen about the VENOM vulnerability that
> is making headlines.  It is a vulnerability than can open access to host
> systems (once a running VM is compromised) and all other VM’s running on a
> host.  VMWare and Hyper-V are NOT affected.
>
> The reason I forwarded on is I know there are a number of people running
> Virtualbox, ubuntu, redhat, etc, to run VMs.  They are all affected.  As
> well as products by Fireeye, F5, others, etc.  Info is at the link below.
>
> http://venom.crowdstrike.com/
>
> Ken
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