hw: cpu: speculative execution bounds-check bypass

An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructions a commonly used performance optimization. There are three primary variants of the issue which differ in the way the speculative execution can be exploited. Variant...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Extended Lifecycle Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3561-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3560-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : QEMU update (USN-3560-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3560-1 advisory. It was discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and branch prediction may allow unauthorized memory reads via sidechannel...

VMware Virtual Appliance updates address side-channel analysis due to speculative execution

a. VMware Virtual Appliance Mitigations for Bounds-Check bypass Spectre-1, and Rogue data cache load issues Meltdown CPU data cache timing can be abused to efficiently leak information out of mis-speculated CPU execution, leading to at worst arbitrary virtual memory read vulnerabilities across...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:0383-1) (Spectre)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 kernel was updated to 4.4.114 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2017-5715: Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and indirect branch prediction may allow unauthorized disclosure of...

USN-3561-1 libvirt update

It was discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and branch prediction may allow unauthorized memory reads via sidechannel attacks. This flaw is known as Spectre. An attacker in the guest could use this to expose sensitive guest information, including kernel memory. This...

USN-3560-1 qemu update

It was discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and branch prediction may allow unauthorized memory reads via sidechannel attacks. This flaw is known as Spectre. An attacker in the guest could use this to expose sensitive guest information, including kernel memory. This...

USN-3560-1: QEMU update

It was discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and branch prediction may allow unauthorized memory reads via sidechannel attacks. This flaw is known as Spectre. An attacker in the guest could use this to expose sensitive guest information, including kernel memory. This...

Important: qemu-kvm

Issue Overview: An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructions a commonly used performance optimization. There are three primary variants of the issue which differ in the way the speculative execution can be...

Important: libvirt

Issue Overview: An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructions a commonly used performance optimization. There are three primary variants of the issue which differ in the way the speculative execution can be...

Important: microcode_ctl

Issue Overview: An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructions a commonly used performance optimization. There are three primary variants of the issue which differ in the way the speculative execution can be...

VMSA-2018-0007:VMware Virtual Appliance updates address side-channel analysis due to speculative execution

VMSA-2018-0007.6 VMware Virtual Appliance updates address side-channel analysis due to speculative execution VMware Security Advisory VMware Security Advisory Advisory ID: VMSA-2018-0007.6 VMware Security Advisory Severity: Important VMware Security Advisory Synopsis: VMware Virtual Appliance...

Virtuozzo 6 : cpupools / cpupools-features / etc (VZA-2018-006)

According to the versions of the cpupools / cpupools-features / etc packages installed, the Virtuozzo installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - CVE-2017-5715 triggers the speculative execution by utilizing branch target injection. It relies on the presence o...

Important product update: Fixes for Meltdown and Spectre exploits in virtual machines; Virtuozzo 6.0 Update 12 Hotfix 21 (6.0.12-3698)

Hotfix 21 for Virtuozzo 6.0 Update 12 provides fixes for Meltdown and Spectre exploits in virtual machines as well as stability and usability bug fixes. NOTE: For clusters with CPU pools, follow the instructions at https://help.virtuozzo.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2919459. Vulnerability id:...

OracleVM 3.3 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2018-0016) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - x86: Add another set of MSR accessor functions Borislav Petkov Orabug: 27444923 CVE-2017-5753 - userns: prevent speculative execution Elena Reshetova Orabug: 27444923 CVE-2017-5753 - udf: prevent...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

kernel-uek 3.8.13-118.20.2 - x86: Add another set of MSR accessor functions Borislav Petkov Orabug: 27444923 CVE-2017-5753 - userns: prevent speculative execution Elena Reshetova Orabug: 27444923 CVE-2017-5753 - udf: prevent speculative execution Elena Reshetova Orabug: 27444923 CVE-2017-5753 - f...

The Effects of the Spectre and Meltdown Vulnerabilities

On January 3, the world learned about a series of major security vulnerabilities in modern microprocessors. Called Spectre and Meltdown, these vulnerabilities were discovered by several different researchers last summer, disclosed to the microprocessors' manufacturers, and patched­ -- at least to...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2018:0151 centos7

Check the version of kernel SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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 scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882836";...