Security Bulletin: PowerKVM has released fixes in response to the vulnerabilities known as Foreshadow

Summary PowerKVM is affected by vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. IBM has now addressed these vulnerabilities. Note that, although the CVE descriptions do not reference POWER, POWER CPUs are afftected. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-3620 DESCRIPTION: Multiple Intel CPU''s could allow a...

EulerOS Virtualization 2.5.1 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2018-1267)

According to the version of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of Load i1/4+...

EulerOS Virtualization 2.5.0 : kvm (EulerOS-SA-2018-1271)

According to the version of the kvm package installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of Load i1/4+ Stor...

Kernel: hw: cpu: L1 terminal fault (L1TF)

Modern operating systems implement virtualization of physical memory to efficiently use available system resources and provide inter-domain protection through access control and isolation. The L1TF issue was found in the way the x86 microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of...

Kernel: hw: cpu: L1 terminal fault (L1TF)

Modern operating systems implement virtualization of physical memory to efficiently use available system resources and provide inter-domain protection through access control and isolation. The L1TF issue was found in the way the x86 microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of...

CVE-2018-15572

An issue was found in the way modern x86 microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructions a commonly used performance optimization and prediction of return addresses via Return Stack Buffer RSB. RSB is a small on chip structure that holds list of return addresses, use...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-10846

A cache-based side channel in GnuTLS implementation that leads to plain text recovery in cross-VM attack setting was found. An attacker could use a combination of "Just in Time" Prime+probe attack in combination with Lucky-13 attack to recover plain text using crafted packets...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2018-886) (Foreshadow)

The openSUSE Leap 15.0 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2018-10853: A flaw was found in KVM in which certain instructions such as sgdt/sidt call segmentedwritestd doesn't propagate access correctly. As such, during userspa...

Kernel: hw: cpu: L1 terminal fault (L1TF)

Modern operating systems implement virtualization of physical memory to efficiently use available system resources and provide inter-domain protection through access control and isolation. The L1TF issue was found in the way the x86 microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of...

Kernel: hw: cpu: L1 terminal fault (L1TF)

Modern operating systems implement virtualization of physical memory to efficiently use available system resources and provide inter-domain protection through access control and isolation. The L1TF issue was found in the way the x86 microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of...

USN-3733-2: GnuPG vulnerability

USN-3733-1 fixed a vulnerability in GnuPG. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Daniel J. Bernstein, Joachim Breitner, Daniel Genkin, Leon Groot Bruinderink, Nadia Heninger, Tanja Lange, Christine van Vredendaal, and Yuval Yarom discovered...

Kernel: hw: cpu: L1 terminal fault (L1TF)

Modern operating systems implement virtualization of physical memory to efficiently use available system resources and provide inter-domain protection through access control and isolation. The L1TF issue was found in the way the x86 microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of...

Kernel: hw: cpu: L1 terminal fault (L1TF)

Modern operating systems implement virtualization of physical memory to efficiently use available system resources and provide inter-domain protection through access control and isolation. The L1TF issue was found in the way the x86 microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of...

kernel, perf, python security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2018:2390 An update for kernel 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...

Kernel: hw: cpu: L1 terminal fault (L1TF)

Modern operating systems implement virtualization of physical memory to efficiently use available system resources and provide inter-domain protection through access control and isolation. The L1TF issue was found in the way the x86 microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of...

Kernel: hw: cpu: L1 terminal fault (L1TF)

Modern operating systems implement virtualization of physical memory to efficiently use available system resources and provide inter-domain protection through access control and isolation. The L1TF issue was found in the way the x86 microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of...

Kernel: hw: cpu: L1 terminal fault (L1TF)

Modern operating systems implement virtualization of physical memory to efficiently use available system resources and provide inter-domain protection through access control and isolation. The L1TF issue was found in the way the x86 microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of...

hw: cpu: speculative store bypass

An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of Load & Store instructions a commonly used performance optimization. It relies on the presence of a precisely-defined instruction sequence in the privileged code as well as the...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security and bug fix 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...

Kernel: speculative bounds check bypass store

An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructions past bounds check. The flaw relies on the presence of a precisely-defined instruction sequence in the privileged code and the fact that memory writes occur to an...