SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : spectre-meltdown-checker (SUSE-SU-2024:0884-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLEDSAP15 / SLES15 / SLESSAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:0884-1 advisory. - updated to 0.46 This release mainly focuses on the detection of the new Zenbleed CVE-2023-20593...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : spectre-meltdown-checker (SUSE-SU-2024:0885-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLESSAP12 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:0885-1 advisory. - updated to 0.46 This release mainly focuses on the detection of the new Zenbleed CVE-2023-20593 vulnerability, among few other changes tha...

GhostRace – New Data Leak Vulnerability Affects Modern CPUs

A group of researchers has discovered a new data leakage attack impacting modern CPU architectures supporting speculative execution. Dubbed GhostRace CVE-2024-2193, it is a variation of the transient execution CPU vulnerability known as Spectre v1 CVE-2017-5753. The approach combines speculative...

SUSE-SU-2024:0885-1 Security update for spectre-meltdown-checker

This update for spectre-meltdown-checker fixes the following issues: - updated to 0.46 This release mainly focuses on the detection of the new Zenbleed CVE-2023-20593 vulnerability, among few other changes that were in line waiting for a release: - feat: detect the vulnerability and mitigation of...

SUSE-SU-2024:0884-1 Security update for spectre-meltdown-checker

This update for spectre-meltdown-checker fixes the following issues: - updated to 0.46 This release mainly focuses on the detection of the new Zenbleed CVE-2023-20593 vulnerability, among few other changes that were in line waiting for a release: - feat: detect the vulnerability and mitigation of...

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-46836

The fixes for XSA-422 Branch Type Confusion and XSA-434 Speculative Return Stack Overflow are not IRQ-safe. It was believed that the mitigations always operated in contexts with IRQs disabled. However, the original XSA-254 fix for Meltdown XPTI deliberately left interrupts enabled on two entry...

CVE-2023-46836

The fixes for XSA-422 Branch Type Confusion and XSA-434 Speculative Return Stack Overflow are not IRQ-safe. It was believed that the mitigations always operated in contexts with IRQs disabled. However, the original XSA-254 fix for Meltdown XPTI deliberately left interrupts enabled on two entry...

Type confusion

The fixes for XSA-422 Branch Type Confusion and XSA-434 Speculative Return Stack Overflow are not IRQ-safe. It was believed that the mitigations always operated in contexts with IRQs disabled. However, the original XSA-254 fix for Meltdown XPTI deliberately left interrupts enabled on two entry...

CVE-2023-46836

The fixes for XSA-422 Branch Type Confusion and XSA-434 Speculative Return Stack Overflow are not IRQ-safe. It was believed that the mitigations always operated in contexts with IRQs disabled. However, the original XSA-254 fix for Meltdown XPTI deliberately left interrupts enabled on two entry...

CVE-2023-46836

The CVE pertains to Xen virtualization. The issue is a race condition where mitigations for XSA-422 (Branch Type Confusion) and XSA-434 (Speculative Return Stack Overflow) are not IRQ-safe; one entry path remains with interrupts enabled, and combined with the Meltdown XPTI fix (XSA-254) this was ...

CVE-2023-46836 x86: BTC/SRSO fixes not fully effective

The fixes for XSA-422 Branch Type Confusion and XSA-434 Speculative Return Stack Overflow are not IRQ-safe. It was believed that the mitigations always operated in contexts with IRQs disabled. However, the original XSA-254 fix for Meltdown XPTI deliberately left interrupts enabled on two entry...

CVE-2023-46836 x86: BTC/SRSO fixes not fully effective

The fixes for XSA-422 Branch Type Confusion and XSA-434 Speculative Return Stack Overflow are not IRQ-safe. It was believed that the mitigations always operated in contexts with IRQs disabled. However, the original XSA-254 fix for Meltdown XPTI deliberately left interrupts enabled on two entry...

Race Condition

Xen is vulnerable to Race Condition. The vulnerability is caused due to the two mitigations XSA-422 Branch Type Confusion and XSA-434 Speculative Return Stack Overflow not active because it was believed that the mitigations always operated in contexts with IRQs disabled due to original XSA-254 fi...

Xen: x86: BTC/SRSO Fixes Not Fully Effective (XSA-446)

The fixes for XSA-422 Branch Type Confusion and XSA-434 Speculative Return Stack Overflow are not IRQ-safe as it was believed that the mitigations were always operated in contexts with IRQs disabled. However due to an unanticipated interaction with XSA-254 Meltdown, a race condition exists whereb...

x86: BTC/SRSO fixes not fully effective

ISSUE DESCRIPTION The fixes for XSA-422 Branch Type Confusion and XSA-434 Speculative Return Stack Overflow are not IRQ-safe. It was believed that the mitigations always operated in contexts with IRQs disabled. However, the original XSA-254 fix for Meltdown XPTI deliberately left interrupts enabl...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

5.4.17-2136.323.8 - vhost-scsi: Fix alignment handling with windows Mike Christie Orabug: 35769318 - Revert 'vhost/scsi: support non zerocopy iovecs' Rajan Shanmugavelu Orabug: 35769318 5.4.17-2136.323.7 - x86: change default to specstorebypassdisable=prctl spectrev2user=prctl Andrea Arcangeli...

Fedora: Security Advisory for spectre-meltdown-checker (FEDORA-2023-7228464f28)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 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...

Fedora 38 : spectre-meltdown-checker (2023-7228464f28)

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-7228464f28 advisory. This release mainly focuses on the detection of the new Zenbleed CVE-2023-20593 vulnerability, among few other changes that were in line waiting for a releas...

Fedora 36 : xen (2023-04b5338dd0)

The remote Fedora 36 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-04b5338dd0 advisory. 3 security issues 2180425 x86 shadow plus log-dirty mode use-after-free XSA-427, CVE-2022-42332 x86/HVM pinned cache attributes mis-handling XSA-428...

Fedora 37 : xen (2023-da8315e641)

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-da8315e641 advisory. 3 security issues 2180425 x86 shadow plus log-dirty mode use-after-free XSA-427, CVE-2022-42332 x86/HVM pinned cache attributes mis-handling XSA-428...