SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:0011-1) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 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: Local attackers on systems with...

microcode_ctl security update

2.1-22.2 - Update Intel CPU microde for 06-3f-02, 06-4f-01, and 06-55-04 - Resolves: 1527358 2.1-22.1 - Update to upstream 2.1-13. Intel CPU microcode update to 20170707. - Resolves: 1474844...

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...

CVE-2015-2666: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Stack-based buffer overflow in the getmatchingmodelmicrocode function in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intelearly.c in the Linux kernel before 4.0 allows context-dependent attackers to gain privileges by constructing a crafted microcode header and leveraging root privileges for write access to th...