Scientific Linux Security Update : microcode_ctl on SL7.x x86_64 (20180103) (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...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:0012-1) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. This update adds mitigations for various side channel attacks against modern CPUs that could disclose content of otherwise unreadable memory bnc1068032. - CVE-2017-5753 / 'SpecreAttack': Local attackers ...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : qemu (SUSE-SU-2018:0007-1) (Spectre)

This update for qemu fixes the following issues: A new feature was added : - Support EPYC vCPU type bsc1052825 fate324038 Also a mitigation for a security problem has been applied : - CVE-2017-5715: QEMU was updated to allow passing through new MSR and CPUID flags from the host VM to the CPU, to...

VMSA-2018-0002 : VMware ESXi, Workstation and Fusion updates address side-channel analysis due to speculative execution. (Spectre)

Bounds Check bypass and Branch Target Injection issues CPU data cache timing can be abused to efficiently leak information out of mis-speculated CPU execution, leading to at worst arbitrary virtual memory read vulnerabilities across local security boundaries in various contexts. Speculative...

CPU hardware vulnerable to side-channel attacks

Overview CPU hardware implementations are vulnerable to cache side-channel attacks. These vulnerabilities are referred to as Meltdown and Spectre. Description CPU hardware implementations are vulnerable to side-channel attacks referred to as Meltdown and Spectre. Both Spectre and Meltdown take...

CVE-2017-5715

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. Recent assessments: pwsh at March 03, 2021 3:34pm UTC reported: I am submitting this...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : ucode-intel (SUSE-SU-2018:0006-1) (Spectre)

This update for ucode-intel fixes the following issues: The CPU microcode for Haswell-X, Skylake-X and Broadwell-X chipsets was updated to report both branch prediction control via CPUID flag and ability to control branch prediction via an MSR register. This update is part of a mitigation for a...

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...

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...

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...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kvm (SUSE-SU-2018:0019-1) (Spectre)

This update for kvm fixes the following issues: Also a mitigation for a security flaw has been applied : - CVE-2017-5715: QEMU was updated to allow passing through new MSR and CPUID flags from the host VM to the CPU, to allow enabling/disabling branch prediction features in the Intel CPU...

Scientific Linux Security Update : microcode_ctl on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20180103) (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...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x 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...

Scientific Linux Security Update : linux-firmware on SL7.x (noarch) (20180104) (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...

RHEL 7 : linux-firmware (RHSA-2018:0015) (Spectre)

An update for linux-firmware is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Extended Update Support. 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...

KB4056890: Windows 10 Version 1607 and Windows Server 2016 January 2018 Security Update (Meltdown)(Spectre)

The remote Windows host is missing security update 4056890 or 4057142. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - An vulnerability exists within microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and indirect branch prediction, which may allow an attacker with local user access to...

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...

SUSE-SU-2018:0007-1 Security update for qemu

This update for qemu fixes the following issues: A new feature was added: - Support EPYC vCPU type bsc1052825 fate324038 Also a mitigation for a security problem has been applied: - CVE-2017-5715: QEMU was updated to allow passing through new MSR and CPUID flags from the host VM to the CPU, to...

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...

(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...