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...

VMSA-2018-0004:VMware vSphere, Workstation and Fusion updates add Hypervisor-Assisted Guest Remediation for speculative execution issue

VMSA-2018-0004.3 VMware vSphere, Workstation and Fusion updates add Hypervisor-Assisted Guest Mitigations for speculative execution issue VMware Security Advisory VMware Security Advisory Advisory ID: VMSA-2018-0005 VMware Security Advisory Severity: Critical VMware Security Advisory Synopsis:...

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...

RHEL 6 : microcode_ctl (RHSA-2018:0039) (Spectre)

An update for microcodectl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Advanced Update Support. 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 availabl...

libvirt security update

3.2.0-14.0.1.el74.7 - bump release and rebuild 3.2.0-14.el74.7 - qemu: Properly store microcode version in QEMU caps cache CVE-2017-5715 3.2.0-14.el74.6 - util: add virFileReadHeaderQuiet wrapper around virFileReadHeaderFD CVE-2017-5715 - util: introduce virHostCPUGetMicrocodeVersion CVE-2017-571...

Oracle Linux 6 : microcode_ctl (ELSA-2018-0013)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2018-0013 advisory. 1:1.17-25.2 - Update Intel CPU microde for 06-3f-02, 06-4f-01, and 06-55-04 - Add amd microcodeamdfam17h.bin data file - Resolves: 1527357 1:1.17-25.1 - Update...

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...

Citrix XenServer Multiple Security Updates

Important Note Due to concerns about the robustness of some of the Intel microcode updates included in the earlier hotfixes for these issues XS71ECU1009, XS72E013 and XS73E001, Citrix has superseded these hotfixes with new hotfixes listed below. Customers are strongly recommended to apply these n...

Processor Vulnerabilities – Meltdown and Spectre

UPDATE 1/4/2018: Qualys has released several QIDs for detecting missing patches for these vulnerabilities. UPDATE 1/5/2018: Pre-built AssetView dashboards to visualize impact and remediation progress. Vulnerabilities potentially impacting all major processor vendors were disclosed today by Google...

kernel security update

3.10.0-693.11.6.OL7 - Oracle Linux certificates Alexey Petrenko - Oracle Linux RHCK Module Signing Key was compiled into kernel [email protected] - Update x509.genkey bug 24817676 3.10.0-693.11.6 - x86 specctrl: Eliminate redundant FEATURE Not Present messages Andrea...

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...

libvirt security update

0.10.2-62.0.1.el69.1 - Replace docs/et.png in tarball with blank image 0.10.2-62.el69.1 - util: Implement virFileReadHeaderFD CVE-2017-5715 - util: add virFileReadHeaderQuiet wrapper around virFileReadHeaderFD CVE-2017-5715 - util: introduce virHostCPUGetMicrocodeVersion CVE-2017-5715 - conf:...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:0011-1) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. This update adds mitigations for various side channel attacks against modern CPUs that could disclose content of otherwise unreadable memory bnc1068032. - CVE-2017-5753: Local attackers on systems with...

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...

microcode_ctl security update

2.1-22.2 - Update Intel CPU microde for 06-3f-02, 06-4f-01, and 06-55-04 - Resolves: 1527358 2.1-22.1 - Update to upstream 2.1-13. Intel CPU microcode update to 20170707. - Resolves: 1474844...