About the security content of macOS High Sierra 10.13.5, Security Update 2018-003 Sierra, Security Update 2018-003 El Capitan - Apple Support

About Apple security updates For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are available. Recent releases are listed on the Apple security updates page. For more information about security, se...

About the security content of macOS Catalina 10.15

About the security content of macOS Catalina 10.15 This document describes the security content of macOS Catalina 10.15. About Apple security updates For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or...

AMD Radeon Graphics Cards Open VMware Workstations to Attack

A remote code-execution bug exists in some configurations of the AMD Radeon graphics card that could allow an attacker to take control of a targeted system. The hack entails luring users of vulnerable systems to visit a specially crafted website that can deliver “a malformed pixel shader” to eith...

Security Bulletin: IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager has released a fixpack in response to the vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown.

Summary IBM has released the following a fixpack for IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager in response to CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5754 Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2017-5753 DESCRIPTION: Intel Haswell Xeon, AMD PRO and ARM Cortex A57 CPUs could allow a local authenticated attacker to...

Vulnerability Spotlight: AMD ATI Radeon ATIDXX64.DLL shader functionality remote code execution vulnerability

Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Some AMD Radeon cards contain a remote code execution vulnerability in their ATIDXX64.DLL driver. AMD produces the Radeon line of hardware, which includes graphics cards and graphics processing units. This specific vulnerability exists on...

AMD ATI Radeon ATIDXX64.DLL shader functionality remote code execution vulnerability

Summary An exploitable memory corruption vulnerability exists in AMD ATIDXX64.DLL driver, versions 25.20.15031.5004 and 25.20.15031.9002. A specially crafted pixel shader can cause an out-of-bounds memory write. An attacker can provide a specially crafted shader file to trigger this vulnerability...

CVE-2019-16229

drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfdinterrupt.c in the Linux kernel 5.2.14 does not check the allocworkqueue return value, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. NOTE: The security community disputes this issues as not being serious enough to be deserving a CVE id...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-16229

drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfdinterrupt.c in the Linux kernel 5.2.14 does not check the allocworkqueue return value, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. NOTE: The security community disputes this issues as not being serious enough to be deserving a CVE id...

Attacking the Intel Secure Enclave

Interesting paper by Michael Schwarz, Samuel Weiser, Daniel Gruss. The upshot is that both Intel and AMD have assumed that trusted enclaves will run only trustworthy code. Of course, that's not true. And there are no security mechanisms that can deal with malicious enclaves, because the designers...

Security update for vlc (important)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for vlc Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:2015-1 Rating: important References: 1093732 1094893 1118586 1133290 1138354 1138933 1141522 1142161 1143547 1143549 Cross-References: CVE-2018-19857 CVE-2019-12874 CVE-2019-13602 CVE-2019-13962 CVE-2019-5439...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for vlc (openSUSE-SU-2019:1909-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2019 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; you can...

NewStart CGSL MAIN 5.04 : kernel Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2019-0007)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 5.04, has kernel packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - It was found that the timer functionality in the Linux kernel ALSA subsystem is prone to a race condition between read and ioctl system call handlers, resulting...

SWAPGS Attack — New Speculative Execution Flaw Affects All Modern Intel CPUs

A new variant of the Spectre Variant 1 side-channel vulnerability has been discovered that affects all modern Intel CPUs, and probably some AMD processors as well, which leverage speculative execution for high performance, Microsoft and Red Hat warned. Identified as CVE-2019-1125, the vulnerabili...

CVE-2019-1125

An information disclosure vulnerability exists when certain central processing units CPU speculatively access memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could read privileged data across trust boundaries. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would have to log on to an...

Windows Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability

An information disclosure vulnerability exists when certain central processing units CPU speculatively access memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could read privileged data across trust boundaries. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would have to log on to an...

Intel x86-64 and AMD Microprocessors Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows is a set of operating systems for use on personal devices from the American company Microsoft. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Intel x86-64 and AMD Microprocessors. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability to read read privileged data...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerability

This kernel update is based on the upstream 5.1.20 and fixes at least the following security issue: With Xen, virtual device backends and device models running in domain 0, or other backend driver domains, need to be able to map guest memory either via grant mappings, or via the foreign mapping...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. 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 each vulnerability from th...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for kernel-firmware (openSUSE-SU-2019:1770-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2019 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; you can...

openSUSE Security Update : kernel-firmware (openSUSE-2019-1770)

This update for kernel-firmware fixes the following issues : kernel-firmware was updated to version 20190618 : - cavium: Add firmware for CNN55XX crypto driver. - linux-firmware: Update firmware file for Intel Bluetooth 22161 - linux-firmware: Update firmware file for Intel Bluetooth 9560 -...