Photon OS 1.0 : linux / linux-esx (PhotonOS-PHSA-2018-1.0-0151) (Spectre) (deprecated)

An update of 'linux', 'linux-esx' packages of Photon OS has been released. This kernel update mitigates vulnerability CVE-2018-3639 which is referred to as Speculative Store Bypass issue C Tenable Network Security, Inc. @DEPRECATED@ Disabled on 2/7/2019 The descriptive text and package checks in...

Spectre Will Haunt Us For a Long Time

During a recent Congressional hearing, Senators voiced concerns about the ongoing Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. While the technical details were predictably glossed over, most of the hearing focused on Intel informing Chinese partners about the flaws six months before they went public...

Debian DLA-1423-1 : linux-4.9 new package (Spectre)

Linux 4.9 has been packaged for Debian 8 as linux-4.9. This provides a supported upgrade path for systems that currently use kernel packages from the 'jessie-backports' suite. There is no need to upgrade systems using Linux 3.16, as that kernel version will also continue to be supported in the LT...

USN-3690-2: AMD Microcode regression | Cloud Foundry

Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 14.04 Description USN-3690-1 provided updated microcode for AMD processors to address CVE-2017-5715 aka Spectre. Unfortunately, the update caused some systems to fail to boot. This update reverts the update for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. We...

USN-3690-1: AMD Microcode update | Cloud Foundry

Severity High Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 14.04 Description Jann Horn discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and branch prediction may allow unauthorized memory reads via sidechannel attacks. This flaw is known as Spectre. A local attacker...

[SECURITY] [DLA 1423-1] linux-4.9 new package

Package : linux-4.9 Version : 4.9.110-1deb8u1 CVE ID : CVE-2017-5753 CVE-2017-18255 CVE-2018-1118 CVE-2018-1120 CVE-2018-1130 CVE-2018-3639 CVE-2018-5814 CVE-2018-10021 CVE-2018-10087 CVE-2018-10124 CVE-2018-10853 CVE-2018-10876 CVE-2018-10877 CVE-2018-10878 CVE-2018-10879 CVE-2018-10880...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2018:2216)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2216 advisory. 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 man...

CPU July 2018

A Critical Patch Update is a collection of patches for multiple security vulnerabilities. Critical Patch Update patches are usually cumulative, but each advisory describes only the security fixes added since the previous Critical Patch Update advisory. Thus, prior Critical Patch Update advisories...

CentOS 6 : qemu-kvm (CESA-2018:2162) (Spectre)

An update for qemu-kvm 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...

Debian DLA-1422-2 : linux security update (Spectre)

The previous update to linux failed to build for the armhf ARM EABI hard-float architecture. This update corrects that. For all other architectures, there is no need to upgrade or reboot again. For reference, the relevant part of the original advisory text follows. Several vulnerabilities have be...

[SECURITY] [DLA 1422-2] linux security update

Package : linux Version : 3.16.57-2 CVE ID : CVE-2017-5715 CVE-2017-5753 CVE-2018-1066 CVE-2018-1093 CVE-2018-1130 CVE-2018-3665 CVE-2018-5814 CVE-2018-9422 CVE-2018-10853 CVE-2018-10940 CVE-2018-11506 CVE-2018-12233 CVE-2018-1000204 Debian Bug : 898165 The previous update to linux failed to buil...

[SECURITY] [DLA 1422-1] linux security update

Package : linux Version : 3.16.57-1 CVE ID : CVE-2017-5715 CVE-2017-5753 CVE-2018-1066 CVE-2018-1093 CVE-2018-1130 CVE-2018-3665 CVE-2018-5814 CVE-2018-9422 CVE-2018-10853 CVE-2018-10940 CVE-2018-11506 CVE-2018-12233 CVE-2018-1000204 Debian Bug : 898165 Several vulnerabilities have been discovere...

Spectre bug protection forcing Chrome to use 10 to 13% more RAM

By Uzair Amir The entire tech industry was shaken after the discovery of This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Spectre bug protection forcing Chrome to use 10 to 13% more RAM...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : Recommended update for ucode-intel (SUSE-SU-2018:1935-1) (Spectre)

The Intel CPU microcode bundle was updated to the 20180703 release. For the listed CPU chipsets this fixes CVE-2018-3640 Spectre v3a and helps mitigating CVE-2018-3639 Spectre v4 bsc1100147 bsc1087082 bsc1087083. More information on:...

Chrome Now Features Site Isolation to Defend Against Spectre

Google introduced new security mitigations for its Chrome browser to defend against recently discovered Spectre variants. The new security feature, called site isolation, essentially isolates different browser work processes between various browser tabs. That means one tab’s webpage rendering and...

Google Enables 'Site Isolation' Feature By Default For Chrome Desktop Users

Google has by default enabled a security feature called "Site Isolation" in its web browser with the release of Chrome 67 for all desktop users to help them protect against many online threats, including Spectre and Meltdown attack. Site Isolation is a feature of the Google Chrome web browser tha...

Google Enables 'Site Isolation' Feature By Default For Chrome Desktop Users

Google has by default enabled a security feature called "Site Isolation" in its web browser with the release of Chrome 67 for all desktop users to help them protect against many online threats, including Spectre and Meltdown attack. Site Isolation is a feature of the Google Chrome web browser tha...

SUSE-SU-2018:1935-1 Recommended update for ucode-intel

The Intel CPU microcode bundle was updated to the 20180703 release. For the listed CPU chipsets this fixes CVE-2018-3640 Spectre v3a and helps mitigating CVE-2018-3639 Spectre v4 bsc1100147 bsc1087082 bsc1087083. More information on:...

OracleVM 3.4 : qemu-kvm (OVMSA-2018-0238) (Spectre)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - qemu-kvm-i386-define-the-ssbd-CPUID-feature-bit-CVE-2018 -3639.patch - qemu-kvm-i386-Define-the-Virt-SSBD-MSR-and-handling-of-i t-CVE.patch - qemu-kvm-i386-define-the-AMD-virt-ssbd-CPUID-feature-bit...

SUSE-SU-2018:1926-1 Security update for ucode-intel

This update for ucode-intel fixes the following issues: The microcode bundles was updated to the 20180703 release For the listed CPU chipsets this fixes CVE-2018-3640 Spectre v3a and helps mitigating CVE-2018-3639 Spectre v4 bsc1100147 bsc1087082 bsc1087083. More information on:...