Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Telco Extended Update Support, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impac...

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...

SUSE-SU-2018:0008-1 Security update for kernel-firmware

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...

CVE-2017-5754

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...

(RHSA-2018:0013) Important: microcode_ctl security update

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 used performance optimization. There are three primary...

(RHSA-2018:0012) Important: microcode_ctl security update

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 used performance optimization. There are three primary...

(RHSA-2018:0011) Important: kernel security update

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 used performance optimization. There are three...

CVE-2017-5754

Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and indirect branch prediction may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis of the data cache...

Meltdown and Spectre CPU Flaws Affect Intel, ARM, AMD Processors

Unlike the initial reports suggested about Intel chips being vulnerable to some severe ‘memory leaking’ flaws, full technical details about the vulnerabilities have now been emerged, which revealed that almost every modern processor since 1995 is vulnerable to the issues. Disclosed today by Googl...

Description of the security update for SQL Server 2014 SP2 CU10: January 16, 2018

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January 4, 2018—KB4056894 (Monthly Rollup)

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January 3, 2018—KB4056898 (Security-only update)

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Description of the security update for SQL Server 2012 SP3 CU: January 16, 2018

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January 8, 2018—KB4056895 (Monthly Rollup)

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Huge Flaws Affect Nearly Every Modern Device; Patch Could Hit CPU Performance

UPDATE: Researchers have finally disclosed complete technical details of two kernel side-channel attacks, Meltdown and Spectre—which affect not only Intel but also systems and devices running AMD, ARM processors—allowing attackers to steal sensitive data from the system memory. The first week of...

Security Advisory 0031

Security Advisory 0031 PDF Date: January 3rd, 2018 Version: 1.0 Revision| Date| Changes ---|---|--- 1.0 | January 3rd, 2018 | Initial Release 1.1 | January 8th, 2018 | Updated description with expanded analysis Arista Products vulnerability report for the following CVEs: Spectre CVE-2017-5753:...

Multiple CPU Hardware CVE-2017-5753 Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Description Multiple CPU Hardware are prone to an information-disclosure vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this issue to obtain sensitive information that may aid in further attacks. Technologies Affected AMD FXtm-8320 Eight-Core Processor AMD PRO A8-9600 R7, 10 COMPUTE CORES 4C+6G ARM Cortex...

Updated nonfree firmwares fixes security issues and adds new hw support

Updated nonfree firmwares fixes at least the following security issues: Broadcom firmware fixes: - dropping BRCM proprietary packets received over the air CVE-2016-0801 - adding length checks for TDLS action frames CVE-2017-0561 - adding length checks for WME IE CVE-2017-9417 Iwlwifi firmware...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : OpenSSL vulnerability (K14363514)

The version of F5 Networks BIG-IP installed on the remote host is prior to 14.1.0. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the K14363514 advisory. - There is a carry propagating bug in the x8664 Montgomery squaring procedure in OpenSSL before 1.0.2m and 1.1.0 before 1.1.0g...

kernel security and bug fix update

3.10.0-693.11.1.OL7 - Oracle Linux certificates Alexey Petrenko - Oracle Linux RHCK Module Signing Key was compiled into kernel [email protected] - Update x509.genkey bug 24817676 3.10.0-693.11.1 - powerpc perf: Fix book3s kernel to userspace backtraces Gustavo...