9 Years of AMD Processors Vulnerable to 2 New Side-Channel Attacks

AMD processors from as early as 2011 to 2019 carry previously undisclosed vulnerabilities that open them to two new different side-channel attacks, according to a freshly published research. Known as "Take A Way," the new potential attack vectors leverage the L1 data L1D cache way predictor in...

9 Years of AMD Processors Vulnerable to 2 New Side-Channel Attacks

AMD processors from as early as 2011 to 2019 carry previously undisclosed vulnerabilities that open them to two new different side-channel attacks, according to a freshly published research. Known as "Take A Way," the new potential attack vectors leverage the L1 data L1D cache way predictor in...

PT-2020-1714

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions AMD CPU affected versions not specified Description The issue is related to the implementation of a way predictor mechanism in the L1D cache of AMD CPUs. It allows an attacker to access memory on the same physical CPU core by exploiting the fa...

PT-2020-1713

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions AMD CPU affected versions not specified Description The issue is related to a flaw in the implementation of the way predictor mechanism in the L1D cache of AMD CPUs. This flaw is connected to collisions in the hash function used to calculate...

amd-ph.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Security Researcher geeknik Helped patch 8562 vulnerabilities Received 8 Coordinated Disclosure badges Received 20 recommendations , a holder of 8 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting amd-ph.com website and its users. Following coordinated an...

(0Day) AMD Radeon Divide By Zero Denial of Service Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows local attackers to trigger a Denial-of-Service condition on vulnerable installations of AMD Radeon drivers on Apple macOS. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The specific...

USN-4284-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.3, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.3, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-raspi2, linux-raspi2-5.3 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly clear data structures on context switches for certain Intel graphics processors. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. CVE-2019-14615 It was discovered that the Atheros 802.11ac wireless USB device driver in the...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4287-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4287-1 advisory. It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly clear data structures on context switches for certain Intel graphics processors. A...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4284-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 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...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4285-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4285-1 advisory. It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly clear data structures on context switches for certain Intel graphics processors. A local attacke...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-4284-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4284-1 advisory. It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly clear data structures on context switches for certain Intel graphics processors. A local attacke...

USN-4287-2 linux-azure vulnerabilities

USN-4287-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux kernel for Microsoft Azure Cloud systems for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly clear data structures on context switches...

USN-4287-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-gke-4.15, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly clear data structures on context switches for certain Intel graphics processors. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. CVE-2019-14615 It was discovered that the Atheros 802.11ac wireless USB device driver in the...

USN-4287-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly clear data structures on context switches for certain Intel graphics processors. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. CVE-2019-14615 It was discovered that the Atheros 802.11ac wireless USB device driver in the...

USN-4285-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly clear data structures on context switches for certain Intel graphics processors. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. CVE-2019-14615 It was discovered that the HSA Linux kernel driver for AMD GPU devices did not...

MGASA-2020-0089 Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This update provides upstream 5.4.20, adding support for new hardware and features, and resolves at least the following security issues: In a Linux KVM guest that has PV TLB enabled, a process in the guest kernel may be able to read memory locations from another process in the same guest. This...

Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This update provides upstream 5.4.20, adding support for new hardware and features, and resolves at least the following security issues: In a Linux KVM guest that has PV TLB enabled, a process in the guest kernel may be able to read memory locations from another process in the same guest. This...

CVE-2020-8950

The AUEPLauncher service in Radeon AMD User Experience Program Launcher through 1.0.0.1 on Windows allows elevation of privilege by placing a crafted file in %PROGRAMDATA%\AMD\PPC\upload and then creating a symbolic link in %PROGRAMDATA%\AMD\PPC\temp that points to an arbitrary folder with an...

CVE-2020-8950

The AUEPLauncher service in Radeon AMD User Experience Program Launcher through 1.0.0.1 on Windows allows elevation of privilege by placing a crafted file in %PROGRAMDATA%\AMD\PPC\upload and then creating a symbolic link in %PROGRAMDATA%\AMD\PPC\temp that points to an arbitrary folder with an...

Privilege escalation

The AUEPLauncher service in Radeon AMD User Experience Program Launcher through 1.0.0.1 on Windows allows elevation of privilege by placing a crafted file in %PROGRAMDATA%\AMD\PPC\upload and then creating a symbolic link in %PROGRAMDATA%\AMD\PPC\temp that points to an arbitrary folder with an...