KLA11030 Speculative Store Bypass and Rogue System Register Read vulnerabilities in Microsoft Surface Products

On January 3, 2018, Microsoft released advisories and security updates related to a recently discovered class of hardware vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown that affect AMD, ARM, and Intel CPUs. On May 21, 2018, Intel announced the Rogue System Registry Read vulnerability. Also a new...

Microsoft Issues More Spectre Updates For Intel CPUs

Microsoft has released additional Windows 10 mitigations for the Spectre side-channel flaw revealed in January, with an expanded lineup of firmware microcode updates for Intel CPUs that include the Broadwell and Haswell chipsets. The company released two Windows Update packages addressing Spectre...

AMD Rolls Out Spectre Fixes

AMD said that CPU firmware and Windows 10 patches are now available to safeguard its products against the Spectre security flaw. Mark Papermaster, senior vice president and chief technology officer at AMD, said in a Tuesday post that Spectre fixes are available for AMD customers, who can download...

Intel SGX Update and Attestation Key Recovery - US

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-15184 Potential Impact: Elevation of Privilege / Information Disclosure Severity: High Scope of Impact: Industry Wide CVE Identifier: CVE-2017-5691 Summary Description: Intel has discovered a vulnerability that could impact the security of Intel® Software Guard...

Intel Halts Spectre Fixes On Older Chips, Citing Limited Ecosystem Support

Intel has halted patches for an array of older chips that would protect them against the Spectre vulnerability, according to a recent microcode update. The microcode update shows that its older products – including Wolfdale, Bloomfield, Clarksfield, Gulftown, Harpertown, Jasper Forest, SoFIA 3GR,...

Intel Admits It Won't Be Possible to Fix Spectre (V2) Flaw in Some Processors

As speculated by the researcher who disclosed Meltdown and Spectre flaws in Intel processors, some of the Intel processors will not receive patches for the Spectre variant 2 side-channel analysis attack In a recent microcode revision guidance PDF, Intel admits that it would not be possible to...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : intel-microcode update (USN-3531-3)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3531-3 advisory. Jann Horn discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and branch prediction may allow unauthorized memory reads via sidechannel...

USN-3531-3: intel-microcode update

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. CVE-2017-5715 This...

USN-3531-3 intel-microcode update

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. CVE-2017-5715 This...

MGASA-2018-0176 Updated microcode packages fix security vulnerabilities

This update provides new microcode fixes and mitigations for Spectre CVE-2017-5715 for many Intel CPUs produced in the last 5 years. So far the Intel microcode updates are for several processors from many of Intel Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake, Gemini Lake, Apollo Lake,...

Updated microcode packages fix security vulnerabilities

This update provides new microcode fixes and mitigations for Spectre CVE-2017-5715 for many Intel CPUs produced in the last 5 years. So far the Intel microcode updates are for several processors from many of Intel Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake, Gemini Lake, Apollo Lake,...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : ucode-intel (SUSE-SU-2018:0708-1) (Spectre)

This update for ucode-intel fixes the following issues: The Intel CPU microcode version was updated to version 20180312. This update enables the IBPB+IBRS based mitigations of the Spectre v2 flaws boo1085207 CVE-2017-5715 - New Platforms - BDX-DE EGW A0 6-56-5:10 e000009 - SKX B1 6-55-3:97 100014...

openSUSE Security Update : ucode-intel (openSUSE-2018-266) (Spectre)

This update for ucode-intel fixes the following issues : The Intel CPU microcode version was updated to version 20180312. This update enables the IBPB+IBRS based mitigations of the Spectre v2 flaws boo1085207 CVE-2017-5715 - New Platforms - BDX-DE EGW A0 6-56-5:10 e000009 - SKX B1 6-55-3:97 10001...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : microcode_ctl (SUSE-SU-2018:0705-1) (Spectre)

This update for ucode-intel fixes the following issues: The Intel CPU microcode version was updated to version 20180312. This update enables the IBPB+IBRS based mitigations of the Spectre v2 flaws boo1085207 CVE-2017-5715 - New Platforms - BDX-DE EGW A0 6-56-5:10 e000009 - SKX B1 6-55-3:97 100014...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for ucode-intel (openSUSE-SU-2018:0710-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Security update for ucode-intel (important)

This update for ucode-intel fixes the following issues: The Intel CPU microcode version was updated to version 20180312. This update enables the IBPB+IBRS based mitigations of the Spectre v2 flaws boo1085207 CVE-2017-5715 - New Platforms - BDX-DE EGW A0 6-56-5:10 e000009 - SKX B1 6-55-3:97 100014...

New Microsoft Bug Bounty Program Looks To Squash The Next Spectre, Meltdown

In the wake of the Meltdown and Spectre flaws, Microsoft has rolled out a new bug bounty program targeting speculative execution side channel vulnerabilities. The limited time program is open until December 31, and offers up to $250,000 for identifying new categories of speculative execution...

SUSE-SU-2018:0705-1 Security update for microcode_ctl

This update for ucode-intel fixes the following issues: The Intel CPU microcode version was updated to version 20180312. This update enables the IBPB+IBRS based mitigations of the Spectre v2 flaws boo1085207 CVE-2017-5715 - New Platforms - BDX-DE EGW A0 6-56-5:10 e000009 - SKX B1 6-55-3:97 100014...

SUSE-SU-2018:0708-1 Security update for ucode-intel

This update for ucode-intel fixes the following issues: The Intel CPU microcode version was updated to version 20180312. This update enables the IBPB+IBRS based mitigations of the Spectre v2 flaws boo1085207 CVE-2017-5715 - New Platforms - BDX-DE EGW A0 6-56-5:10 e000009 - SKX B1 6-55-3:97 100014...

Intel Details CPU ‘Virtual Fences’ Fix As Safeguard Against Spectre, Meltdown Flaws

Intel introduced hardware-based protections to its new chips to protect against the Spectre and Meltdown flaws that rocked the silicon industry when the vulnerabilities were made public in early 2018. Spectre and Meltdown, which account for three variants of a side-channel analysis security issue...