Security vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 60.7 — Mozilla

If hyperthreading is not disabled, a timing attack vulnerability exists, similar to previous Spectre attacks. Apple has shipped macOS 10.14.5 with an option to disable hyperthreading in applications running untrusted code in a thread through a new sysctl. Firefox now makes use of it on the main...

Behind the Naming of ZombieLoad and Other Intel Spectre-Like Flaws

There was a lot more to the name game behind choosing titles for ZombieLoad, Spectre and Meltdown than picking cool and edgy attack titles. If you have ever wondered why they were named what they were, Threatpost tracked down one of the researchers behind the naming convention and discovery and...

ZombieLoad Pioneer: The Story Behind Intel’s Latest Side Channel Flaw

The release of a new speculative execution vulnerability called ZombieLoad last week follows a similar disclosure path as Meltdown and Spectre. Threatpost caught up with one of the researchers behind the discovery of ZombieLoad to find out how. ZombieLoad was discovered and reported by Michael...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for the Linux Kernel Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:1407-1 Rating: important References: 1012382 1020645 1020989 1031492 1047487 1051510 1053043 1062056 1063638 1064388 1066223 1070872 1085539 1087092 1094244 1096480 1096728 1097104 1100132 1103186...

Another Intel Chip Flaw

Remember the Spectre and Meltdown attacks from last year? They were a new class of attacks against complex CPUs, finding subliminal channels in optimization techniques that allow hackers to steal information. Since their discovery, researchers have found additional similar vulnerabilities. A whol...

Bound Check Bypass

Mozilla Thunderbird is vulnerable to bound check bypass. It does not properly perform bounds checking when Spectre mitigations are disabled...

Intel CPUs Impacted By New Class of Spectre-Like Attacks

A new class of side channel vulnerabilities impacting all modern Intel chips have been disclosed, which can use speculative execution to potentially leak sensitive data from a system’s CPU. Intel said that the newest class of vulnerabilities, dubbed Microarchitectural Data Sampling MDS, consist o...

May 14, 2019—KB4494441 (OS Build 17763.503)

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EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.1.0 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1525)

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - Mounting a crafted EXT4 image read-only leads to an attacker controlled memory corruption and SLAB-Out-of-Bounds...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : java-1_8_0-openjdk (SUSE-SU-2019:1219-1) (Spectre)

This update for java-180-openjdk to version 8u212 fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : CVE-2019-2602: Better String parsing bsc1132728. CVE-2019-2684: More dynamic RMI interactions bsc1132732. CVE-2019-2698: Fuzzing TrueType fonts - setCurrGlyphID bsc1132729. CVE-2019-2422: Better...

Mozilla: Improper bounds checks when Spectre mitigations are disabled

A mechanism was discovered that removes some bounds checking for string, array, or typed array accesses if Spectre mitigations have been disabled. This vulnerability could allow an attacker to create an arbitrary value in compiled JavaScript, for which the range analysis will infer a fully...

RHEL 7 : Virtualization Manager (RHSA-2019:1046) (Spectre)

An update for rhvm-setup-plugins is now available for Red Hat Virtualization Engine 4.3. 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...

EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.1.0 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2019-1478)

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - In the eaget function in fs/jfs/xattr.c in the Linux kernel through 4.17.1, a memory corruption bug in JFS can be...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : java-1_8_0-openjdk (SUSE-SU-2019:1211-1) (Spectre)

This update for java-180-openjdk to version 8u212 fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : CVE-2019-2602: Better String parsing bsc1132728. CVE-2019-2684: More dynamic RMI interactions bsc1132732. CVE-2019-2698: Fuzzing TrueType fonts - setCurrGlyphID bsc1132729. CVE-2018-3639: fix...

Mozilla: Improper bounds checks when Spectre mitigations are disabled

A mechanism was discovered that removes some bounds checking for string, array, or typed array accesses if Spectre mitigations have been disabled. This vulnerability could allow an attacker to create an arbitrary value in compiled JavaScript, for which the range analysis will infer a fully...

Critical: Red Hat Security Advisory: firefox security update

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2019-1201)

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of logical link control and adaptation protocol L2CAP, part of the Bluetooth stack in the l2capparseconfrsp and l2capparseconfreq functions. An attacker with physical access within the range of standard Bluetooth transmission can create a...

Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALAS-2019-1201)

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of logical link control and adaptation protocol L2CAP, part of the Bluetooth stack in the l2capparseconfrsp and l2capparseconfreq functions. An attacker with physical access within the range of standard Bluetooth transmission can create a...

Important: kernel

Issue Overview: A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of logical link control and adaptation protocol L2CAP, part of the Bluetooth stack in the l2capparseconfrsp and l2capparseconfreq functions. An attacker with physical access within the range of standard Bluetooth transmission c...

Important: kernel

Issue Overview: A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of logical link control and adaptation protocol L2CAP, part of the Bluetooth stack in the l2capparseconfrsp and l2capparseconfreq functions. An attacker with physical access within the range of standard Bluetooth transmission c...