Two New Spectre-Class CPU Flaws Discovered—Intel Pays $100K Bounty

Intel has paid out a $100,000 bug bounty for new processor vulnerabilities that are related to Spectre variant one CVE-2017-5753. The new Spectre-class variants are tracked as Spectre 1.1 CVE-2018-3693 and Spectre 1.2, of which Spectre 1.1 described as a bounds-check bypass store attack has been...

Two New Spectre-Class CPU Flaws Discovered—Intel Pays $100K Bounty

Intel has paid out a $100,000 bug bounty for new processor vulnerabilities that are related to Spectre variant one CVE-2017-5753. The new Spectre-class variants are tracked as Spectre 1.1 CVE-2018-3693 and Spectre 1.2, of which Spectre 1.1 described as a bounds-check bypass store attack has been...

Scientific Linux Security Update : qemu-kvm on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20180710) (Spectre)

Security Fixes : - 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...

Oracle Linux 6 : qemu-kvm (ELSA-2018-2162)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2018-2162 advisory. - qemu-kvm-i386-define-the-ssbd-CPUID-feature-bit-CVE-2018-3639.patch bz1574074 - Resolves: bz1574074 CVE-2018-3639 qemu-kvm: hw: cpu: speculative stor...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20180710) (Spectre)

Security Fixes : - 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...

July 10, 2018—KB4338820 (Security-only update)

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July 10, 2018—KB4338830 (Monthly Rollup)

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Fedora 27 : 2:qemu (2018-9f02e5ed7b) (Spectre)

Add new CPU features for CVE-2017-5715 and CVE-2018-3639 On Intel x86 hosts, the 'ssbd' feature must be explicitly added to any virtual machines that are not using host-passthrough/host-model CPU setup. NB this requires new microcode too, which is not yet available in Fedora microcodectl RPMs. On...

openSUSE Security Update : ucode-intel (openSUSE-2018-700) (Spectre)

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:...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for ucode-intel (openSUSE-SU-2018:1904-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Security update for ucode-intel (important)

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:...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : AMD Microcode regression (USN-3690-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3690-2 advisory. 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...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3690-2)

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...

USN-3690-2 amd64-microcode regression

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 apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Jann Horn discovered th...

USN-3690-2: AMD Microcode regression

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 apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Jann Horn discovered th...

CentOS 7 : kernel (CESA-2018:1965) (Spectre)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 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...

CentOS 7 : qemu-kvm (CESA-2018:2001) (Spectre)

An update for qemu-kvm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 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...

CentOS 7 : libvirt (CESA-2018:1997) (Spectre)

An update for libvirt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 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 t...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20180619) (Spectre)

Security Fixes : - 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...

OracleVM 3.4 : xen (OVMSA-2018-0233) (Spectre)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - BUILDINFO: xen commit=67e64eec4bfe342ca6c2ff0858ae7f5c39041013 - BUILDINFO: QEMU upstream commit=8bff6989bd0bafcc0ddf859c23ce6a2ff21a80ff - BUILDINFO: QEMU traditional...