SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:1377-1) (Spectre)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bug was fixed : - CVE-2018-3639: Information leaks using 'Memory Disambiguation' feature in modern CPUs were mitigated, aka 'Spectre Variant 4' bnc1087082. A new boot...

AIX 7.1 TL 5 : variant4 (IJ05822) (Spectre)

https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2018-3639 https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2018-3639 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The text in the description was extracted from AIX Security Advisory variant4advisory.asc. include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid109954; scriptversion"1.12";...

Scientific Linux Security Update : java-1.7.0-openjdk on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20180521) (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 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3654-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3654-1 advisory. Jann Horn and Ken Johnson discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution of a memory read may allow unauthorized memory reads via a...

CentOS 7 : qemu-kvm (CESA-2018:1633) (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 6 : java-1.8.0-openjdk (CESA-2018:1650) (Spectre)

An update for java-1.8.0-openjdk 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...

OracleVM 3.4 : xen (OVMSA-2018-0218) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : please see Oracle VM Security Advisory OVMSA-2018-0218 for details. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The package checks in this plugin were extracted from OracleVM Security Advisory OVMSA-2018-0218...

Oracle Linux 6 : java-1.8.0-openjdk (ELSA-2018-1650)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2018-1650 advisory. 1:1.8.0.171-8.b10 - added and applied 1566890embargoed20180521.patch - Resolves: rhbz1578545 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from...

RHEL 7 : qemu-kvm (RHSA-2018:1662)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:1662 advisory. Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm packages provide the...

Scientific Linux Security Update : java-1.8.0-openjdk on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20180522) (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 : java-1.7.0-openjdk (ELSA-2018-1647)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2018-1647 advisory. 1:1.7.0.181-2.6.14.8.0.1 - Update DISTRONAME in specfile 1:1.7.0.181-2.6.14.8 - added and applied 1566890embargoed20180521.patch - Resolves: rhbz1578550 Tenable...

Researchers Say More Spectre-Related CPU Flaws On Horizon

After another speculative execution side channel-related flaw has been disclosed in processors, security experts say that more may be on the horizon. Researchers on Monday disclosed Variant 4, a new speculative execution side channel category flaw that allows attackers to read privileged data...

SUSE-SU-2018:1368-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-3639: Information leaks using 'Memory Disambiguation' feature in modern CPUs were mitigated, aka 'Spectre Variant 4' bnc1087082. A new boot commandline...

Intel Responds to Spectre-Like Flaw In CPUs

Intel acknowledged that its processors are vulnerable to another dangerous speculative execution side channel flaw that could give attackers unauthorized read access to memory. The new vulnerability, disclosed by Google Project Zero and Microsoft’s Security Response Center, is called Variant 4, a...

SUSE-SU-2018:1374-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 GA LTSS kernel was updated to receive several security fixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-3639: Information leaks using 'Memory Disambiguation' feature in modern CPUs were mitigated, aka 'Spectre Variant 4' bnc1087082. A new boot commandline...

SUSE-SU-2018:1377-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bug was fixed: - CVE-2018-3639: Information leaks using 'Memory Disambiguation' feature in modern CPUs were mitigated, aka 'Spectre Variant 4' bnc1087082. A new boot commandli...

SUSE-SU-2018:1366-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 kernel was updated to 4.4.131 to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-3639: Information leaks using 'Memory Disambiguation' feature in modern CPUs were mitigated, aka 'Spectre Variant 4' bnc1087082. A new boot...

SUSE-SU-2018:1376-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2018-3639: Information leaks using 'Memory Disambiguation' feature in modern CPUs were mitigated, aka 'Spectre Variant 4' bnc1087082. A new boot...

SUSE-SU-2018:1378-1 Security update for qemu

This update for qemu fixes several issues. This security issue was fixed: - CVE-2018-3639: Spectre v4 vulnerability mitigation support for KVM guests bsc1092885. Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of all prio...

SUSE-SU-2018:1363-1 Security update for qemu

This update for qemu fixes several issues. This security issue was fixed: - CVE-2018-3639: Spectre v4 vulnerability mitigation support for KVM guests bsc1092885. Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of all prio...