Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security update

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2. 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 t...

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...

Security update for kernel-firmware (important)

This update for kernel-firmware fixes the following issues: - Add microcodeamdfam17h.bin bsc1068032 CVE-2017-5715 This new firmware disables branch prediction on AMD family 17h processor to mitigate a attack on the branch predictor that could lead to information disclosure from e.g. kernel memory...

Fixing the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities

Two days ago, Graz University of Technology published a paper describing a pair of attacks on common microprocessors. The underlying vulnerability affects Intel, AMD, and ARM processors. All contemporary microprocessors pre-execute instructions. In other words, the vulnerability bypasses address...

microcode_ctl security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2018:0012 The microcodectl packages provide microcode updates for Intel and AMD processors. Security Fixes: An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructions a commonly use...

kernel, perf, python security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2018:0007 The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructions a commonly...

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...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security update

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 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...

Processor Vulnerabilities – Meltdown and Spectre

UPDATE 1/4/2018: Qualys has released several QIDs for detecting missing patches for these vulnerabilities. UPDATE 1/5/2018: Pre-built AssetView dashboards to visualize impact and remediation progress. Vulnerabilities potentially impacting all major processor vendors were disclosed today by Google...

Microsoft Windows Multiple Vulnerabilities (KB4056892)

This host is missing a critical security update according to Microsoft KB4056892. 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...

RHEL 7 : microcode_ctl (RHSA-2018:0012) (Spectre)

An update for microcodectl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 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...

CentOS 7 : microcode_ctl (CESA-2018:0012) (Spectre)

An update for microcodectl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 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...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20180103) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

Security Fixes : 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...

openSUSE Security Update : kernel-firmware (openSUSE-2018-1) (Spectre)

This update for kernel-firmware fixes the following issues : - Add microcodeamdfam17h.bin bsc1068032 CVE-2017-5715 This new firmware disables branch prediction on AMD family 17h processor to mitigate a attack on the branch predictor that could lead to information disclosure from e.g. kernel memor...

Microsoft Windows Multiple Vulnerabilities (KB4056893)

This host is missing a critical security update according to Microsoft KB4056893 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...

HPESBHF03805 rev.24 - Certain HPE products using Microprocessors from Intel, AMD, and ARM, with Speculative Execution, Elevation of Privilege and Information Disclosure (CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5754)

Potential Security Impact: Local: Disclosure of Information, Elevation of Privilege SUPPORTED SOFTWARE VERSIONS: ONLY impacted versions are listed. HPE ProLiant DL120 Gen10 Server - prior to 1.3202-01-201816 Feb 2018 HPE ProLiant DL160 Gen10 Server - prior to 1.3202-01-201816 Feb 2018 HPE ProLian...

Reading privileged memory with a side-channel (Meltdown & Spectre)

We have discovered that CPU data cache timing can be abused to efficiently leak information out of mis-speculated execution, leading to at worst arbitrary virtual memory read vulnerabilities across local security boundaries in various contexts. Variants of this issue are known to affect many mode...

RHEL 6 : microcode_ctl (RHSA-2018:0013) (Spectre)

An update for microcodectl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. 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...

microcode_ctl security update

1:1.17-25.2 - Update Intel CPU microde for 06-3f-02, 06-4f-01, and 06-55-04 - Add amd microcodeamdfam17h.bin data file - Resolves: 1527357 1:1.17-25.1 - Update microcode data file to 20170707 revision. - Resolves: 1465143...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : microcode_ctl (SUSE-SU-2018:0009-1) (Spectre)

This update for microcodectl fixes the following issues: Added microcodeamdfam17h.bin bsc1068032 CVE-2017-5715 This new firmware disables branch prediction on AMD family 17h processor. Also the CPU microcode for Intel Haswell-X, Skylake-X and Broadwell-X chipsets was updated to report both branch...