Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel 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 th...

IBM has released AIX and VIOS iFixes in response to the vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown.,IBM has released VIOS and VIOS iFixes in response to the vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown.

wnadvisory.asc: Version 4 IBM SECURITY ADVISORY First Issued: Thu Jan 25 08:15:51 CST 2018 |Updated: Fri Aug 17 08:05:01 CDT 2018 |Update: Added a link to the bulletin for CVE-2017-5715, known as Spectre, | regarding updated iFixes that are only applicable to some POWER9 systems. | The bulletin i...

firefox security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2018:0122 An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score,...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20180125) (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...

CentOS 6 / 7 : firefox (CESA-2018:0122)

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available...

RedHat Update for firefox RHSA-2018:0122-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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...

AIX 7.2 TL 2 : spectre_meltdown (IJ03036) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

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. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text in the description was extracted from AIX...

AIX 7.2 TL 1 : spectre_meltdown (IJ03035) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

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. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text in the description was extracted from AIX...

January Release Brings Improved Enterprise Management to Cb Defense

As a network of computers gets larger, the challenges and risks of keep systems consistently protected and in compliance increases. This means that, with a huge number of dispersed endpoints to keep watch over, security administrators at enterprise organizations often spend too much time deployin...

Critical: Red Hat Security Advisory: firefox security update

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available...

Apple Mac OS X Speculative Execution Side-Channel Vulnerability-Meltdown (HT208465)

Apple Mac OS X is prone to an information disclosure vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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...

Meltdown and Spectre Attacks | Cloud Foundry

Severity Advisory/Critical Description Meltdown and Spectre exploit critical vulnerabilities in modern processors. These hardware bugs allow programs to steal data which is currently processed on the computer. While programs are typically not permitted to read data from other programs, a maliciou...

macOS and Mac OS X Multiple Vulnerabilities (Security Update 2018-001) (Meltdown)

The remote host is running Mac OS X 10.11.6 or Mac OS X 10.12.6 and is missing a security update. It is therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities affecting the following components : - Audio - curl - IOHIDFamily - Kernel - LinkPresentation - QuartzCore - Sandbox - Security - WebKit - Wi-Fi ...

Intel Halts Spectre/Meltdown Patching for Broadwell and Haswell Systems

Intel is advising OEMs and partners to halt patching for the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities amid numerous reports the updates are causing reboot issues on systems running the Broadwell and Haswell microprocessors. “We recommend that OEMs, cloud service providers, system manufacturers,...

USN-3541-2 linux-hwe, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-oem vulnerabilities

USN-3541-1 addressed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 17.10. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 17.10 for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Jann Horn discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and branch...

Intel Warns Users Not to Install Its 'Faulty' Meltdown and Spectre Patches

Don't install Intel's patches for Spectre and Meltdown chip vulnerabilities. Intel on Monday warned that you should stop deploying its current versions of Spectre/Meltdown patches, which Linux creator Linus Torvalds calls 'complete and utter garbage.' Spectre and Meltdown are security...

USN-3540-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3540-1 addressed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Jann Horn discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and bran...

USN-3540-2 linux-lts-xenial, linux-aws vulnerabilities

USN-3540-1 addressed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Jann Horn discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and bran...

USN-3541-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Jann Horn discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and branch prediction may allow unauthorized memory reads via sidechannel attacks. This flaw is known as Spectre. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information, including kernel memory. This update provide...

USN-3540-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Jann Horn discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and branch prediction may allow unauthorized memory reads via sidechannel attacks. This flaw is known as Spectre. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information, including kernel memory. This update provide...