USN-3531-3: intel-microcode update

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 could use this to expose sensitive information, including kernel memory. CVE-2017-5715 This...

Microsoft's Meltdown Patch Made Windows 7 PCs More Insecure

Meltdown CPU vulnerability was bad, and Microsoft somehow made the flaw even worse on its Windows 7, allowing any unprivileged, user-level application to read content from and even write data to the operating system's kernel memory. For those unaware, Spectre and Meltdown were security flaws...

FreeBSD : webkit2-gtk3 -- multiple vulnerabilities (1ce95bc7-3278-11e8-b527-00012e582166) (Spectre)

The WebKit team reports many vulnerabilities. Please reference the CVE/URL list for details. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database : Copyright 2003-2019 Jacques Vidrine and contributors Redistribution...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : qemu (SUSE-SU-2018:0831-1) (Spectre)

This update for qemu fixes the following issues: This update has the next round of Spectre v2 related patches, which now integrate with corresponding changes in libvirt. CVE-2017-5715 bsc1068032 The January 2018 release of qemu initially addressed the Spectre v2 vulnerability for KVM guests by...

SUSE-SU-2018:0831-1 Security update for qemu

This update for qemu fixes the following issues: This update has the next round of Spectre v2 related patches, which now integrate with corresponding changes in libvirt. CVE-2017-5715 bsc1068032 The January 2018 release of qemu initially addressed the Spectre v2 vulnerability for KVM guests by...

SUSE-RU-2018:0821-1 Recommended update for drbd, drbd-utils

This update for drbd and drbd-utils provides the following fixes: Changes in drbd-utils: - Make sure the full bitmap gets properly propagated in drbdmeta. Also make sure the ID is kept when downgrading from v9 to v8. bsc1037109 - Support passing '--force' to drbdadm dump-md. bsc1077176 - Fix a...

Kernel security update: CVE-2017-18017 and other; new kernel 2.6.32-042stab128.2 for Virtuozzo Containers for Linux 4.7, Server Bare Metal 5.0

This update provides a new Virtuozzo Containers for Linux 4.7 and Server Bare Metal 5.0 kernel 2.6.32-042stab128.2 that is a rebase to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 kernel 2.6.32-696.23.1.el6. This kernel was recompiled by the updated gcc with retpolines support. Retpolines are a technique use...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for qemu (openSUSE-SU-2018:0780-1)

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 qemu (important)

This update for qemu fixes the following issues: This update has the next round of Spectre v2 related patches, which now integrate with corresponding changes in libvirt. CVE-2017-5715 bsc1068032 The January 2018 release of qemu initially addressed the Spectre v2 vulnerability for KVM guests by...

openSUSE Security Update : qemu (openSUSE-2018-291) (Spectre)

This update for qemu fixes the following issues : This update has the next round of Spectre v2 related patches, which now integrate with corresponding changes in libvirt. CVE-2017-5715 bsc1068032 The January 2018 release of qemu initially addressed the Spectre v2 vulnerability for KVM guests by...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : crash (SUSE-SU-2018:0757-1) (Spectre)

This update for crash fixes the following issues : - Exclude openSUSE from RT KMP build bsc1013843 This update also rebuilds the crash kernel module packages with retpoline support to mitigate Spectre Variant 2. bsc1068032 CVE-2017-5715 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the precedi...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : qemu (SUSE-SU-2018:0762-1) (Spectre)

This update for qemu fixes the following issues: This update has the next round of Spectre v2 related patches, which now integrate with corresponding changes in libvirt. CVE-2017-5715 bsc1068032 The January 2018 release of qemu initially addressed the Spectre v2 vulnerability for KVM guests by...

SUSE-SU-2018:0762-1 Security update for qemu

This update for qemu fixes the following issues: This update has the next round of Spectre v2 related patches, which now integrate with corresponding changes in libvirt. CVE-2017-5715 bsc1068032 The January 2018 release of qemu initially addressed the Spectre v2 vulnerability for KVM guests by...

SUSE-SU-2018:0757-1 Security update for crash

This update for crash fixes the following issues: - Exclude openSUSE from RT KMP build bsc1013843 This update also rebuilds the crash kernel module packages with retpoline support to mitigate Spectre Variant 2. bsc1068032 CVE-2017-5715...

Security update for various KMPs (important)

The Spectre Variant 2 in the Linux Kernel is mitigated using "retpolines". This update rebuilds all openSUSE Leap 42.3 KMPs to use "retpolines" and so be able to mitigate the Spectre v2 attack. bsc1068032 CVE-2017-5715...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for various KMPs (openSUSE-SU-2018:0745-1)

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...

openSUSE Security Update : various KMPs (openSUSE-2018-284) (Spectre)

The Spectre Variant 2 in the Linux Kernel is mitigated using 'retpolines'. This update rebuilds all openSUSE Leap 42.3 KMPs to use 'retpolines' and so be able to mitigate the Spectre v2 attack. bsc1068032 CVE-2017-5715 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...

A week in security (March 12 – March 18)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we took a look at the inner workings of a fileless attack, explored what happened in a zero day ransomware attack aimed at South Koreans, gave you hints and tips for avoiding cold calls, and took a deep dive into the secretive world of GrayKey. Other news The Equif...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.25 and updates the KPTI mitigation for Meltdown CVE-2017-5754 on 32bit x86. It also adds ome optimizations and improvements to mitigate some of the slowdons caused by the Meltdown CVE-2017-5754 and Spectre, variant 2 CVE-2017-5715. Other security...

Updated microcode packages fix security vulnerabilities

This update provides new microcode fixes and mitigations for Spectre CVE-2017-5715 for many Intel CPUs produced in the last 5 years. So far the Intel microcode updates are for several processors from many of Intel Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake, Gemini Lake, Apollo Lake,...