Security Advisory - Side-Channel Vulnerability Variants 3a and 4

Intel publicly disclosed new variants of the side-channel central processing unit CPU hardware vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown. These variants known as 3A （CVE-2018-3640）and 4 （CVE-2018-3639, local attackers may exploit these vulnerabilities to cause information leak on the affected...

OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2018-0228) (Spectre)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - netlink: add a start callback for starting a netlink dump Tom Herbert Orabug: 27169581 CVE-2017-16939 - ipsec: Fix aborted xfrm policy dump crash Herbert Xu Orabug: 27169581 CVE-2017-16939 - net/rds:...

KLA11291 Microsoft Guidance for Lazy Floating Point State Restore

Speculative store bypass vulnerability in Microsoft Windows systems can be exploited to bypass security restrictions. On January 3, 2018, Microsoft released an advisory and security updates related to a newly-discovered class of hardware vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown involving...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2018:1658-1) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2018-3639: Prevent attackers with local user access from extracting information via a side-channel analysis, aka Speculative Store Bypass SSB, Variant 4 bsc1092631. - CVE-2017-5753,CVE-2017-5715,CVE-2017-5754:...

KLA11891 Microsoft Advisory for Microsoft Products (ESU)

Microsoft released an advisory and security updates related to a newly-discovered class of hardware vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown. An additional vulnerability involving side channel speculative execution has been announced and assigned CVE-2018-3665. An attacker locally could caus...

SUSE-SU-2018:1658-1 Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2018-3639: Prevent attackers with local user access from extracting information via a side-channel analysis, aka Speculative Store Bypass SSB, Variant 4 bsc1092631. - CVE-2017-5753,CVE-2017-5715,CVE-2017-5754:...

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Amazon Linux AMI : java-1.7.0-openjdk (ALAS-2018-1037) (Spectre)

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...

Amazon Linux 2 : libvirt (ALAS-2018-1033) (Spectre)

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...

Amazon Linux 2 : java-1.8.0-openjdk (ALAS-2018-1039) (Spectre)

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...

Amazon Linux AMI : kernel (ALAS-2018-1038) (Spectre)

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...

Amazon Linux 2 : java-1.7.0-openjdk (ALAS-2018-1037) (Spectre)

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...

Amazon Linux AMI : java-1.8.0-openjdk (ALAS-2018-1039) (Spectre)

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...

openSUSE Security Update : kernel-firmware (openSUSE-2018-590) (Spectre)

This update for kernel-firmware fixes the following issues : This security issue was fixed : - CVE-2017-5715: Prevent unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access caused by speculative execution and indirect branch prediction bsc1095735 This update was imported fro...

Amazon Linux 2 : qemu-kvm (ALAS-2018-1034) (Spectre)

An out-of-bounds read access issue was found in the VGA display emulator built into the Quick emulator QEMU. It could occur while reading VGA memory to update graphics display. A privileged user/process inside guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host resulting in denial of...

Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALAS-2018-1038) (Spectre)

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...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : libvirt (SUSE-SU-2018:1614-1) (Spectre)

This update for libvirt fixes the following issues : - CVE-2018-3639: cpu: add support for 'ssbd' and 'virt-ssbd' CPUID feature bits pass through bsc1092885 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has...