Intel Halts Spectre/Meltdown Patching for Broadwell and Haswell Systems

Intel is advising OEMs and partners to halt patching for the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities amid numerous reports the updates are causing reboot issues on systems running the Broadwell and Haswell microprocessors. “We recommend that OEMs, cloud service providers, system manufacturers,...

RHEL 6 : libvirt (RHSA-2018:0108) (Spectre)

An update for libvirt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 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 score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

RHEL 6 : libvirt (RHSA-2018:0112) (Spectre)

An update for libvirt 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 available for...

RHEL 6 : qemu-kvm (RHSA-2018:0104) (Spectre)

An update for qemu-kvm 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...

RHEL 6 : libvirt (RHSA-2018:0110) (Spectre)

An update for libvirt 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...

RHEL 6 : qemu-kvm (RHSA-2018:0107) (Spectre)

An update for qemu-kvm 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 available fo...

(RHSA-2018:0107) Important: qemu-kvm security update

Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm package provides the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM. Security Fixes: An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor...

(RHSA-2018:0106) Important: qemu-kvm security update

Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm package provides the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM. Security Fixes: An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor...

(RHSA-2018:0105) Important: qemu-kvm security update

Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm package provides the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM. Security Fixes: An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor...

(RHSA-2018:0104) Important: qemu-kvm security update

Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm package provides the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM. Security Fixes: An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor...

(RHSA-2018:0103) Important: qemu-kvm security update

Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm package provides the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM. Security Fixes: An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor...

(RHSA-2018:0092) Important: Red Hat CloudForms 4.0 security update

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. CloudForms virtual machines include a copy of the Linux Kernel. Security Fixes: An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructio...

New BitTorrent Flaw Puts Linux & Windows devices at risk of hacking

By Waqas Tavis Ormandy, an IT security researcher at Googles Project Zero This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New BitTorrent Flaw Puts Linux Windows devices at risk of hacking...

(RHSA-2018:0091) Important: Red Hat CloudForms 4.5 security update

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. CloudForms virtual machines include a copy of the Linux Kernel. Security Fixes: An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructio...

(RHSA-2018:0090) Important: Red Hat CloudForms 4.2 security update

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. CloudForms virtual machines include a copy of the Linux Kernel. Security Fixes: An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructio...

(RHSA-2018:0089) Important: Red Hat CloudForms 4.1 security update

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. CloudForms virtual machines include a copy of the Linux Kernel. Security Fixes: An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructio...

Flaw in Popular Transmission BitTorrent Client Lets Hackers Control Your PC Remotely

A critical vulnerability has been discovered in the widely used Transmission BitTorrent app that could allow hackers to remotely execute malicious code on BitTorrent users' computers and take control of them. The vulnerability has been uncovered by Google's Project Zero vulnerability reporting...

FreeBSD : transmission-daemon -- vulnerable to dns rebinding attacks (3e5b8bd3-0c32-452f-a60e-beab7b762351)

Google Project Zero reports : The transmission bittorrent client uses a client/server architecture, the user interface is the client which communicates to the worker daemon using JSON RPC requests. As with all HTTP RPC schemes like this, any website can send requests to the daemon listening on...

Oracle Linux 7 : qemu-kvm (ELSA-2018-0023)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2018-0023 advisory. - Fix CVE-2017-5715 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory. Note that Nessus has not tested for...

RHEL 6 / 7 : rhev-hypervisor7 (RHSA-2018:0046) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

An update for rhev-hypervisor7 is now available for RHEV 3.X Hypervisor and Agents for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and RHEV 3.X Hypervisor and Agents for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ELS. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability...