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Experts Weigh In On Spectre Patch Challenges
The race to patch against the Meltdown and Spectre processor vulnerabilities disclosed last week is on. As of today, there are no known exploits in the wild impacting vulnerable Intel, AMD and ARM devices. Currently, vendors are focused on three main mitigation efforts. Patches that address the...
Security update for kernel-firmware (important)
This update for kernel-firmware fixes the following issues: - Add microcodeamdfam17h.bin bsc1068032 CVE-2017-5715 This new firmware disables branch prediction on AMD family 17h processor to mitigate an attack on the branch predictor that could lead to information disclosure from e.g. kernel memor...
CentOS 6 : microcode_ctl (CESA-2018:0013) (Spectre)
An update for microcodectl 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 rating, is available for each vulnerability...
Important: Red Hat Bug Fix Advisory: dracut bug fix update
Updated dracut packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. The dracut packages contain an event-driven initial RAM file system initramfs generator infrastructure based on the udev device manager. The virtual file system, initramfs, is loaded together with the kerne...
(RHSA-2018:0039) Important: microcode_ctl security update
The microcodectl packages provide microcode updates for Intel and AMD processors. 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...
(RHSA-2018:0038) Important: microcode_ctl security update
The microcodectl packages provide microcode updates for Intel and AMD processors. 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...
(RHSA-2018:0036) Important: microcode_ctl security update
The microcodectl packages provide microcode updates for Intel and AMD processors. 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...
(RHSA-2018:0035) Important: microcode_ctl security update
The microcodectl packages provide microcode updates for Intel and AMD processors. 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...
Scientific Linux Security Update : microcode_ctl on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20180103) (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...
HPSBHF03573 rev. 15 - Side-Channel Analysis Method
Potential Security Impact Elevation of Privilege/Information Disclosure Source: HP, HP Product Security Response Team PSRT Reported by: Google Project Zero VULNERABILITY SUMMARY An industry-wide vulnerability, known as side channel analysis method, has been disclosed with modern CPUs using...
(RHSA-2018:0013) Important: microcode_ctl security update
The microcodectl packages provide microcode updates for Intel and AMD processors. 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...
Fedora 23 : kernel (2016-784d5526d8)
Update to latest upstream stable release, Linux v4.6.4 For those with Skylake CPUs, please note that there may be instability with a recent microcode update. Read https://www.happyassassin.net/2016/07/07/psa-failure-to-boot-after-ker nel-update-on-skylake-systems/ and look for a system firmware...
Fedora 24 : kernel (2016-9a16b2e14e)
Update to latest upstream stable release, Linux v4.6.4 For those with Skylake CPUs, please note that there may be instability with a recent microcode update. Read https://www.happyassassin.net/2016/07/07/psa-failure-to-boot-after-ker nel-update-on-skylake-systems/ and look for a system firmware...
PT-2013-6168 · Amd +2 · Amd Processors +2
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: AMD processors versions 16h 00h through 0Fh Description: The issue arises from the microcode's improper handling of the interaction between locked instructions and write-combined memory types. This allows local users to cause a denial of...
[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: microcode_ctl-2.0-3.1.fc19
The microcodectl utility is a companion to the microcode driver written by Tigran Aivazian . The microcode update is volatile and needs to be uploaded on each system boot i.e. it doesn't reflash your cpu permanently, reboot and it reverts back to the old microcode...
Fedora 19 : microcode_ctl-2.0-3.1.fc19 (2013-4753)
Intel CPU microcode update Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenab...
WSDCFE_MicrocodeForBroadwell406F1_02122019
Broadwell 406f1 block for Microcode Update...