January Patch Tuesday – Meltdown/Spectre, 16 Critical Microsoft Patches, 1 Adobe Patch

Due to the disclosure of Meltdown and Spectre, Microsoft released several patches last week with the ranking "Important." While there are no active attacks against these vulnerabilities, a special focus should be placed on any of the browser patches, due to potential attacks using JavaScript. It ...

Understanding the performance impact of Spectre and Meltdown mitigations on Windows Systems

Last week the technology industry and many of our customers learned of new vulnerabilities in the hardware chips that power phones, PCs and servers. We and others in the industry had learned of this vulnerability under nondisclosure agreement several months ago and immediately began developing...

Understanding the performance impact of Spectre and Meltdown mitigations on Windows Systems

Last week the technology industry and many of our customers learned of new vulnerabilities in the hardware chips that power phones, PCs and servers. We and others in the industry had learned of this vulnerability under nondisclosure agreement several months ago and immediately began developing...

Microsoft January Patch Tuesday Update Fixes 16 Critical Bugs

Thanks to Meltdown and Spectre, January has already been an extremely busy month of patching for Microsoft. Today Microsoft tackled dozens more bugs, part of its regular Patch Tuesday release covering Microsoft Edge, Windows, Office, ASP.NET and the macOS version of Office. Sixteen of Microsoft’s...

A week in security (January 1 – January 7)

New year, new threats, as 2018 gets underway. On our blog, we had dubious searches aplenty for those hunting for Malwarebytes information, and we also covered the huge Meltdown/Spectre bug, affecting hardware going back to 10 years. Other news Coin miners are at it again, with a proof of concept...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday - January 2018

Today Microsoft has released its monthly set of security advisories for vulnerabilities that have been identified and addressed in various products. This month's advisory release addresses 56 new vulnerabilities with 16 of them rated critical, 39 of them rated important and 1 of them rated...

Anti-Virus Updates Required Ahead of Microsoft’s Meltdown, Spectre Patches

Microsoft said it is holding off delivering security updates to Windows PCs for Spectre and Meltdown CPU flaws until hosted anti-virus software confirms it does not make unsupported calls into Windows kernel memory. Affected are PCs running certain AV products that bypass Windows built-in Kernel...

Meltdown/Spectre and Qualys Cloud Platform

In light of the recently released information about two security vulnerabilities, Qualys has considered the impact on the Qualys Cloud Platform and associated services. Qualys released a detailed advisory for customers of the Qualys Cloud Platform to help customers identify these vulnerabilities...

RHEL 7 : rhvm-appliance (RHSA-2018:0045) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

An update for rhvm-appliance is now available for RHEV 4.X, RHEV-H, and Agents 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...

RHEL 7 : redhat-virtualization-host (RHSA-2018:0044) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

An update for redhat-virtualization-host is now available for RHEV 3.X Hypervisor and Agents for RHEL-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...

RHEL 6 / 7 : rhev-hypervisor7 (RHSA-2018:0046) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

An update for rhev-hypervisor7 is now available for RHEV 3.X Hypervisor and Agents for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and RHEV 3.X Hypervisor and Agents for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ELS. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability...

EulerOS 2.0 SP1 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2018-1002)

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - The recent speculative execution CVEs address three potential attacks across a wide variety of architectures and hardware platforms. - Note: Thi...

Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities

Challenge Veeam is aware of the side-channel analysis vulnerabilities known as Meltdown CVE-2017-5754 and Spectre CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715 affecting most of the modern processors. Cause For more information regarding these vulnerabilities please visit security advisories posted by Intel...

RHEL 7 : redhat-virtualization-host (RHSA-2018:0047) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

An update for redhat-virtualization-host is now available for RHEV 4.X, RHEV-H, and Agents 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 severit...

Apple Releases Spectre Patches for Safari, macOS and iOS

Apple released iOS 11.2.2 software Monday for iPhones, iPads and iPod touch models that patch for the Spectre vulnerabilities. A macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 supplemental update was also released to bolster Spectre defenses in Apple’s Safari browser and WebKit, the web browser engine used by Safari,...

January 8, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Golden Globes” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! January 8, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Carbon Black 2017 Threat...

Meltdown and Spectre

Cisco Talos is aware of three new vulnerabilities impacting Intel, AMD, Qualcomm and ARM processors used by almost all computers. We are investigating these issues and although we have not observed exploitation of these vulnerabilities in the wild, that does not mean that it has not occurred. We...

SA161: Local Information Disclosure Due to Meltdown and Spectre Attacks

SUMMARY Symantec Network Protection products, which run on an affected CPU chipset and execute arbitrary code from external sources, are susceptible to several information disclosure vulnerabilities aka Meltdown and Spectre attacks. A remote attacker, with the ability to execute arbitrary code...

Important kernel security update: Fixes for Meltdown and Spectre exploits; new kernel 3.10.0-693.11.6.vz7.40.4, Virtuozzo 7.0 Update 6 Hotfix 3 (7.0.6-710)

This update provides a new Virtuozzo 7.0 kernel 3.10.0-693.11.6.vz7.40.4 that is a rebase to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 kernel 3.10.0-693.11.6.el7. The rebase fixes an industry-wide issue that was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of...

Meltdown and Spectre - Impact On Node.js

Meltdown and Spectre - Impact On Node.js Summary Project zero has recently announced some new attacks that have received a lot of attention: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.ca/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html. The risk from these attacks to systems running Node.js resides in th...