hw: cpu: speculative store bypass

An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of Load & Store instructions a commonly used performance optimization. It relies on the presence of a precisely-defined instruction sequence in the privileged code as well as the...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE Leap 15.0 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-3639: Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of all prior memory writes are...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kvm (SUSE-SU-2018:1389-1) (Spectre)

This update for kvm fixes the following issues: This security issue was fixed : - CVE-2018-3639: Spectre v4 vulnerability mitigation support for KVM guests bsc1092885. Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of al...

Security update for qemu (important)

This update for qemu fixes several issues. This security issue was fixed: - CVE-2018-3639: Spectre v4 vulnerability mitigation support for KVM guests bsc1092885. Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of all prio...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : qemu (SUSE-SU-2018:1378-1) (Spectre)

This update for qemu fixes several issues. This security issue was fixed : - CVE-2018-3639: Spectre v4 vulnerability mitigation support for KVM guests bsc1092885. Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of all pri...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : qemu (SUSE-SU-2018:1363-1) (Spectre)

This update for qemu fixes several issues. This security issue was fixed : - CVE-2018-3639: Spectre v4 vulnerability mitigation support for KVM guests bsc1092885. Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of all pri...

CVE-2018-3640

Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and that perform speculative reads of system registers may allow unauthorized disclosure of system parameters to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis, aka Rogue System Register Read RSRE, Variant 3a...

CVE-2018-3639

Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of all prior memory writes are known may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis, aka Speculative Stor...

Design/Logic Flaw

Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of all prior memory writes are known may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis, aka Speculative Stor...

CVE-2018-3639

Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of all prior memory writes are known may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis, aka Speculative Stor...

CVE-2018-3639

Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of all prior memory writes are known may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis, aka Speculative Stor...

CVE-2018-3639

Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of all prior memory writes are known may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis, aka Speculative Stor...

CVE-2018-3639

CVE-2018-3639 is a speculative execution side‑channel vulnerability (SSB) that can leak memory via speculative stores. The Connected ALMA doc notes a mitigation: SSB is disabled by the new alt-java launcher, reducing impact at the cost of performance, and it references OpenJDK 8u282 as part of th...

CVE-2018-3640

Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and that perform speculative reads of system registers may allow unauthorized disclosure of system parameters to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis, aka Rogue System Register Read RSRE, Variant 3a...

SUSE-SU-2018:1363-1 Security update for qemu

This update for qemu fixes several issues. This security issue was fixed: - CVE-2018-3639: Spectre v4 vulnerability mitigation support for KVM guests bsc1092885. Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of all prio...

CVE-2018-3639

Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of all prior memory writes are known may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis, aka Speculative Stor...

hw: cpu: speculative store bypass

An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of Load & Store instructions a commonly used performance optimization. It relies on the presence of a precisely-defined instruction sequence in the privileged code as well as the...

CPU hardware utilizing speculative execution may be vulnerable to cache side-channel attacks

Overview CPU hardware utilizing speculative execution may be vulnerable to cache timing side-channel analysis. Two vulnerabilities are identified, known as "Variant 3a" and "Variant 4". Description Speculative execution is a technique used by many modern processors to improve performance by...

CVE-2018-9056

Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel attack on the directional branch predictor, as demonstrated by a pattern history table PHT, aka BranchScope...

CVE-2018-9056

CVE-2018-9056 (BranchScope) describes a side-channel vulnerability affecting processors using speculative execution, enabling local attackers to infer memory contents through the Branch Prediction Unit’s patterns, notably the Pattern History Table (PHT). Documents consistently reference a hardwar...