(RHSA-2018:0045) Important: rhvm-appliance security update

The RHV-M Virtual Appliance automates the process of installing and configuring the Red Hat Virtualization Manager. The appliance is available to download as an OVA file from the Customer Portal. Security Fixes: An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have...

(RHSA-2018:0044) Important: redhat-virtualization-host security update

The ovirt-node-ng packages provide the Red Hat Virtualization Host. These packages include redhat-release-virtualization-host, ovirt-node, and rhev-hypervisor. Red Hat Virtualization Hosts RHVH are installed using a special build of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with only the packages required to host...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE Leap 42.2 kernel was updated to 4.4.104 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 / "SpectreAttack": Local attacker...

RedHat Update for qemu-kvm RHSA-2018:0024-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG 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-only ifdescription...

CentOS 6 : kernel (CESA-2018:0008) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

An update for kernel 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 from th...

Debian DSA-4078-1 : linux - security update (Meltdown)

Multiple researchers have discovered a vulnerability in Intel processors, enabling an attacker controlling an unprivileged process to read memory from arbitrary addresses, including from the kernel and all other processes running on the system. This specific attack has been named Meltdown and is...

RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2018:0007-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG 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-only ifdescription...

RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2018:0008-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG 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-only ifdescription...

Impact of Meltdown and Spectre on Akamai

Overview On Wednesday, January 3rd, researchers from Google Project Zero, Cyberus Technology, Graz University of Technology, and other organizations released details about a pair of related vulnerabilities, dubbed Meltdown and Spectre. These vulnerabilities appear to affect all modern processors...

kernel, perf, python security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2018:0008 The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructions a commonly...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 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 available for...

Meltdown and Spectre: what you need to know

UPDATE as of 1/12/18: Several vendors have produced patches for Meltdown and Spectre, however performance problems dog the fixes. Details on the patches were published here. UPDATE as of 1/04/18: Since the Malwarebytes Database Update 1.0.3624, all Malwarebytes users are able to receive the...

Fixing the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities

Two days ago, Graz University of Technology published a paper describing a pair of attacks on common microprocessors. The underlying vulnerability affects Intel, AMD, and ARM processors. All contemporary microprocessors pre-execute instructions. In other words, the vulnerability bypasses address...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 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 available for...

Spectre and Meltdown Attacks

After a week or so of rumors, everyone is now reporting about the Spectre and Meltdown attacks against pretty much every modern processor out there. These are side-channel attacks where one process can spy on other processes. They affect computers where an untrusted browser window can execute cod...

Trend Micro: Winning at Wellness Again

In the never-ending race for profits, shareholder value and customer wins, organizations can sometimes forget about their employees. Yet in reality, your workers are your number one asset: if they feel undervalued or disrespected it can rip the heart and soul out of the organization, setting off ...

SUSE-SU-2018:0012-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 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 / 'SpecŧreAttack': Local attackers...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Advanced Update Support and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Telco Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base...

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...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2018:0020)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:0020 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: An industry-wide issue was found in th...