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...

Oracle Linux 7 : libvirt (ELSA-2018-1997)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2018-1997 advisory. - cpu: define the 'virt-ssbd' CPUID feature bit CVE-2018-3639 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security...

Oracle Linux 7 : qemu-kvm (ELSA-2018-2001)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2018-2001 advisory. 1.5.3-156.el75.3 - kvm-i386-Define-the-Virt-SSBD-MSR-and-handling-of-it-CVE.patch bz1584363 - kvm-i386-define-the-AMD-virt-ssbd-CPUID-feature-bit-CVE-.patch...

WebAssembly Changes Could Ruin Meltdown/Spectre Browser Patches

Upcoming changes to the WebAssembly Wasm format may defang the browser patches for infamous side-channel attacks Meltdown and Spectre. Wasm was invented to improve execution speed for porting desktop applications to web-based environments; programs are compiled in Wasm and then can easily be run ...

CVE-2018-12367

In the previous mitigations for Spectre, the resolution or precision of various methods was reduced to counteract the ability to measure precise time intervals. In that work PerformanceNavigationTiming was not adjusted but it was found that it could be used as a precision timer. This vulnerabilit...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20180626) (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...

CVE-2018-12367

In the previous mitigations for Spectre, the resolution or precision of various methods was reduced to counteract the ability to measure precise time intervals. In that work PerformanceNavigationTiming was not adjusted but it was found that it could be used as a precision timer. This vulnerabilit...

Scientific Linux Security Update : qemu-kvm on SL7.x x86_64 (20180626) (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...

Scientific Linux Security Update : libvirt on SL7.x x86_64 (20180626) (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...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-12367

In the previous mitigations for Spectre, the resolution or precision of various methods was reduced to counteract the ability to measure precise time intervals. In that work PerformanceNavigationTiming was not adjusted but it was found that it could be used as a precision timer. This vulnerabilit...

Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 61 — Mozilla

A buffer overflow can occur when rendering canvas content while adjusting the height and width of the element dynamically, causing data to be written outside of the currently computed boundaries. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. A use-after-free vulnerability can occur when deleti...

Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 60.1 — Mozilla

A buffer overflow can occur when rendering canvas content while adjusting the height and width of the element dynamically, causing data to be written outside of the currently computed boundaries. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. A use-after-free vulnerability can occur when deleti...

KLA11271 Multiple vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Firefox ESR

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Firefox ESR. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to bypass security restrictions, execute arbitrary code, cause denial of service and obtain sensitive information. Below is a complete list of...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-754.OL6 - Update genkey bug 25599697 2.6.32-754 - powerpc 64s: Add support for a store forwarding barrier at kernel entry/exit Mauricio Oliveira 1581053 CVE-2018-3639 - x86 amd: Disable AMD SSBD mitigation in a VM Waiman Long 1580360 - x86 specctrl: Fix late microcode problem with AMD Waim...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel modules packages (SUSE-SU-2018:1784-1) (Spectre)

The following kernel modules were rebuild with 'retpoline' enablement to allow full mitigation of the Spectre Variant 2 CVE-2017-5715, bsc1068032 OFED was adjusted to add an entry to control the loading/unloading of cxgb4 to /etc/sysconf/infiniband bsc926856. Note that Tenable Network Security ha...

SUSE-SU-2018:1784-1 Security update for kernel modules packages

The following kernel modules were rebuild with 'retpoline' enablement to allow full mitigation of the Spectre Variant 2 CVE-2017-5715, bsc1068032 OFED was adjusted to add an entry to control the loading/unloading of cxgb4 to /etc/sysconf/infiniband bsc926856...

CentOS 6 : kernel (CESA-2018:1854) (Spectre)

An update for kernel 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 th...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2018-656) (Spectre)

The openSUSE Leap 42.3 was updated to 4.4.138 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2018-3639: Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of all prior memory writes...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : AMD Microcode update (USN-3690-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3690-1 advisory. Jann Horn discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and branch prediction may allow unauthorized memory reads via...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3690-1)

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...