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8 New Spectre-Class Vulnerabilities (Spectre-NG) Found in Intel CPUs

A team of security researchers has reportedly discovered a total of eight new "Spectre-class" vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs, which also affect at least a small number of ARM processors and may impact AMD processor architecture as well. Dubbed Spectre-Next Generation , or Spectre-NG , the partial...

8 New Spectre-Class Vulnerabilities (Spectre-NG) Found in Intel CPUs

A team of security researchers has reportedly discovered a total of eight new "Spectre-class" vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs, which also affect at least a small number of ARM processors and may impact AMD processor architecture as well. Dubbed Spectre-Next Generation, or Spectre-NG, the partial...

Report: Intel Facing New Spectre-Like Security Flaws

Intel may be facing as many as eight new Spectre-level vulnerabilities in its chips, a new report alleges. The report comes months after the Spectre and Meltdown flaws first rocked the silicon industry in early 2018. German magazine c’t reported on Thursday that the new security flaws in Intel CP...

HPSBHF03584 rev. 8 - Derivative Side-Channel Analysis Method

Potential Security Impact Unauthorized exposure of privileged data from memory. Source: HP, HP Product Security Response Team PSRT Reported By: CVE-2018-3639: Google Project Zero GPZ Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC CVE-2018-3640: Researchers from SYSGO AG and BiZone LLC VULNERABILITY...

Kali Linux 2018.2 Release - The Best Penetration Testing Distribution

This Kali release is the first to include the Linux 4.15 kernel, which includes the x86 and x64 fixes for the much-hyped Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. It also includes much better support for AMD GPUs and support for AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization, which allows for encrypting virtual...

UPDATE: Kali Linux 2018.2 Release!

PenTestIT RSS Feed Second Kali Linux update of this year and this time, it is about the latest Kali Linux 2018.2 release! The last release was made available recently in the month of February. This new release includes all patches, fixes, updates, and improvements since the last release – Kali...

Microsoft Issues More Spectre Updates For Intel CPUs

Microsoft has released additional Windows 10 mitigations for the Spectre side-channel flaw revealed in January, with an expanded lineup of firmware microcode updates for Intel CPUs that include the Broadwell and Haswell chipsets. The company released two Windows Update packages addressing Spectre...

hw: cpu: speculative execution permission faults handling

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...

AMD Plays.tv 1.27.5.0 - plays_service.exe Arbitrary File Execution Exploit

Exploit for windows platform in category local exploits http://support.amd.com/en-us/download?cmpid=CCCOffline - Click "Automatically Detect - Download Now" Installation Automatically Installs "Raptr, Inc Plays TV Service" OR https://plays.tv/download Target OS: Windows Any Privilege: SYSTEM Type...

AMD Plays.tv 1.27.5.0 - plays_service.exe Arbitrary File Execution

AMD Plays.tv 1.27.5.0 - playsservice.exe Arbitrary File Execution http://support.amd.com/en-us/download?cmpid=CCCOffline - Click "Automatically Detect - Download Now" Installation Automatically Installs "Raptr, Inc Plays TV Service" OR https://plays.tv/download Target OS: Windows Any Privilege:...

AMD Plays.tv 1.27.5.0 - 'plays_service.exe' Arbitrary File Execution

http://support.amd.com/en-us/download?cmpid=CCCOffline - Click "Automatically Detect - Download Now" Installation Automatically Installs "Raptr, Inc Plays TV Service" OR https://plays.tv/download Target OS: Windows Any Privilege: SYSTEM Type: Arbitrary File Execution Notes: Second minor bug allow...

CVE-2018-6547

playsservice.exe in the plays.tv service before 1.27.7.0, as distributed in AMD driver-installation packages and Gaming Evolved products, contains an HTTP message parsing function that takes a user-defined path and writes non-user controlled data as SYSTEM to the file when the extractfiles...

Design/Logic Flaw

playsservice.exe in the plays.tv service before 1.27.7.0, as distributed in AMD driver-installation packages and Gaming Evolved products, contains an HTTP message parsing function that takes a user-defined path and writes non-user controlled data as SYSTEM to the file when the extractfiles...

Code injection

playsservice.exe in the plays.tv service before 1.27.7.0, as distributed in AMD driver-installation packages and Gaming Evolved products, executes code at a user-defined local or SMB path as SYSTEM when the executeinstaller parameter is used in an HTTP message. This occurs without properly...

CVE-2018-6546

playsservice.exe in the plays.tv service before 1.27.7.0, as distributed in AMD driver-installation packages and Gaming Evolved products, executes code at a user-defined local or SMB path as SYSTEM when the executeinstaller parameter is used in an HTTP message. This occurs without properly...

CVE-2018-6547

playsservice.exe in the plays.tv service before 1.27.7.0, as distributed in AMD driver-installation packages and Gaming Evolved products, contains an HTTP message parsing function that takes a user-defined path and writes non-user controlled data as SYSTEM to the file when the extractfiles...

CVE-2018-6547

The CVE-2018-6547 entry concerns AMD driver-installation packages and the plays.tv service (plays_service.exe) prior to version 1.27.7.0. Affected component is an HTTP message parsing function that accepts a user-defined path and writes non-user-controlled data as SYSTEM to a file when the extrac...

CVE-2018-6546

CVE-2018-6546 affects the AMD driver-installation package plays.tv service (plays_service.exe) prior to version 1.27.7.0. The flaw allows code execution with SYSTEM privileges when the execute_installer parameter is used in an HTTP message, due to improper user authentication. A remote attacker c...