(RHSA-2018:0092) Important: Red Hat CloudForms 4.0 security update

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. CloudForms virtual machines include a copy of the Linux Kernel. Security Fixes: An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructio...

SUSE-SU-2018:0115-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 GA LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. This update adds mitigations for various side channel attacks against modern CPUs that could disclose content of otherwise unreadable memory bnc1068032. - CVE-2017-5753 / 'SpectreAttack': Local...

Slackware 14.0 / 14.2 / current : kernel (SSA:2018-016-01) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 14.0 and 14.2 to fix security issues. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2018-016-01. The text itself is copyright C Slackware Linux, Inc...

(RHSA-2018:0091) Important: Red Hat CloudForms 4.5 security update

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. CloudForms virtual machines include a copy of the Linux Kernel. Security Fixes: An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructio...

(RHSA-2018:0090) Important: Red Hat CloudForms 4.2 security update

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. CloudForms virtual machines include a copy of the Linux Kernel. Security Fixes: An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructio...

(RHSA-2018:0089) Important: Red Hat CloudForms 4.1 security update

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. CloudForms virtual machines include a copy of the Linux Kernel. Security Fixes: An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructio...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2018-4011) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

Description of changes: 4.1.12-112.14.11.el7uek - x86/pti/efi: broken conversion from efi to kernel page table Pavel Tatashin Orabug: 27363926 Orabug: 27352353 CVE-2017-5754 - x86/spec: Always set IBRS to guest value on VMENTER and host on VMEXIT redux Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Orabug: 27369994 -...

Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update provides the upstream 4.4.111 and fixes several security issues. The most important fix in this update is for the security issue named "Meltdown" that is fixed in theese kernels by enabling kernel Page Table Isolation KTPI. Note that according to AMD, this issue does not...

Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update provided the upstream 4.14.13 and fixes several security issues. The most important fix in this update is for the security issue named "Meltdown" that is fixed in theese kernels by enabling kernel Page Table Isolation KTPI. Note that according to AMD, this issue does not...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2018-4006)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2018-4006 advisory. - x86/ia32: save and clear registers on syscall. Jamie Iles Orabug: 27355759 CVE-2017-5754 - pti: Rename X86FEATUREKAISER to X86FEATUREPTI Pavel Tatashin...

OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2018-0008) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - x86/ia32: save and clear registers on syscall. Jamie Iles Orabug: 27355759 CVE-2017-5754 - x86/IBRS: Save current status of MSRIA32SPECCTRL Boris Ostrovsky - pti: Rename X86FEATUREKAISER to...

Critical: kernel

Issue Overview: An updated kernel release for Amazon Linux has been made available which prevents speculative execution of indirect branches within the kernel. This release incorporates latest stable open source Linux security improvements to address CVE-2017-5715 within the kernel and builds upo...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) regression (USN-3522-4)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3522-4 advisory. USN-3522-2 fixed a vulnerability in the Linux Hardware Enablement kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to address Meltdown CVE-2017-5754. Unfortunately, that update...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3523-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3523-2 advisory. USN-3523-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 17.10. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement H...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel regression (USN-3522-3)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3522-3 advisory. USN-3522-1 fixed a vulnerability in the Linux kernel to address Meltdown CVE-2017-5754. Unfortunately, that update introduced a regression where a few systems...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3522-3)

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...

USN-3522-2: Linux (Xenial HWE) vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

Severity Critical Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 14.04 Description USN-3522-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu...

USN-3522-4: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) regression | Cloud Foundry

Severity Critical Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 14.04 Description USN-3522-2 fixed a vulnerability in the Linux Hardware Enablement kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to address Meltdown CVE-2017-5754. Unfortunately, that update introduced a regression where a few systems...

Debian DSA-4082-1 : linux - security update (Meltdown)

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks. - CVE-2017-5754 Multiple researchers have discovered a vulnerability in Intel processors, enabling an attacker controlling an unprivileged process to...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3523-1)

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...