Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

4.1.12-112.14.14 - drivers/char/mem.c: deny access in open operation when securelevel is set Ethan Zhao Orabug: 27234850 Orabug: 27234850 - hugetlb: fix nrpmds accounting with shared page tables Kirill A. Shutemov Orabug: 26988581 - x86/IBRS: Drop unnecessary WRITEONCE Boris Ostrovsky Orabug:...

Slackware 14.2 : Slackware 14.2 kernel (SSA:2018-037-01) (Spectre)

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 14.2 to mitigate the speculative side channel attack known as Spectre variant 2. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2018-037-01. The text itself is...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.16 and fixes several security issues. The most important fixes in this update is for the security issue named "Spectre, variant 2 CVE-2017-5715" that is partly mitigated by enabling retpoline support. For full retpoline mitigation, kernel needs to ...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.4.114 and fixes several security issues. The most important fixes in this update is for the security issue named "Spectre, variant 2 CVE-2017-5715" that is partly mitigated by enabling retpoline support. For full retpoline mitigation, kernel needs to ...

MGASA-2018-0106 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.16 and fixes several security issues. The most important fixes in this update is for the security issue named "Spectre, variant 2 CVE-2017-5715" that is partly mitigated by enabling retpoline support. For full retpoline mitigation, kernel needs to ...

MGASA-2018-0107 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.4.114 and fixes several security issues. The most important fixes in this update is for the security issue named "Spectre, variant 2 CVE-2017-5715" that is partly mitigated by enabling retpoline support. For full retpoline mitigation, kernel needs to ...

A week in security (January 29 – February 04)

Last week on Labs, we looked into PUPs stealing and using mainstream logos of security and tech companies to further gain user trust, GandCrab and Scarab ransomware variants in the wild, and a new Mac malware called OSX.CreativeUpdater that can be distributed via MacUpdate. We also profiled...

VMSA-2018-0007:VMware Virtual Appliance updates address side-channel analysis due to speculative execution

VMSA-2018-0007.6 VMware Virtual Appliance updates address side-channel analysis due to speculative execution VMware Security Advisory VMware Security Advisory Advisory ID: VMSA-2018-0007.6 VMware Security Advisory Severity: Important VMware Security Advisory Synopsis: VMware Virtual Appliance...

139 Malware Samples Identified that Exploit Meltdown & Spectre Flaws

By Waqas Hackers could be close to developing malware that exploits flaws, This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 139 Malware Samples Identified that Exploit Meltdown & Spectre Flaws...

Meltdown / Spectre: New Concerns Over Intel Patches, as Hackers Test Exploits

This week brought new developments in the Meltdown / Spectre saga, including more concerns about Intel’s buggy patches, and mounting evidence that hackers are trying to create exploits for the vulnerabilities. It seemed that after weeks of complaints and confusion, Intel’s issue had hit bottom an...

This Week in Security News: Magic Quadrants & Global Threats

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, Gartner released its Magic Quadrant Leaders, Data Privacy Day gave us a moment to reflect, and U.K. and U.S. governments alike acted to...

RHEL 6 : chromium-browser (RHSA-2018:0265)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:0265 advisory. Chromium is an open-source web browser, powered by WebKit Blink. This update upgrades Chromium to version 64.0.3282.119. Security Fixes:...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: chromium-browser security update

An update for chromium-browser is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary. 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 ea...

Meltdown/Specter-based Malware Coming Soon to Devices Near You, Are You Ready?

It has been few weeks since the details of the Spectre, and Meltdown processor vulnerabilities came out in public and researchers have discovered more than 130 malware samples trying to exploit these chip flaws. Spectre and Meltdown are security vulnerabilities disclosed by security researchers...

Security update for webkit2gtk3 (important)

This update for webkit2gtk3 fixes the following issues: Update to version 2.18.5: + Disable SharedArrayBuffers from Web API. + Reduce the precision of "high" resolution time to 1ms. + bsc1075419 - Security fixes: includes improvements to mitigate the effects of Spectre and Meltdown CVE-2017-5753...

openSUSE Security Update : webkit2gtk3 (openSUSE-2018-118) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

This update for webkit2gtk3 fixes the following issues : Update to version 2.18.5 : + Disable SharedArrayBuffers from Web API. + Reduce the precision of 'high' resolution time to 1ms. + bsc1075419 - Security fixes: includes improvements to mitigate the effects of Spectre and Meltdown CVE-2017-575...

Important product update: Fixes for Meltdown and Spectre exploits in virtual machines; Virtuozzo 6.0 Update 12 Hotfix 21 (6.0.12-3698)

Hotfix 21 for Virtuozzo 6.0 Update 12 provides fixes for Meltdown and Spectre exploits in virtual machines as well as stability and usability bug fixes. NOTE: For clusters with CPU pools, follow the instructions at https://help.virtuozzo.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2919459. Vulnerability id:...

Critical Oracle Micros POS Flaw Affects Over 300,000 Payment Systems

Oracle has released a security patch update to address a critical remotely exploitable vulnerability that affects its MICROS point-of-sale POS business solutions for the hospitality industry. The fix has been released as part of Oracle's January 2018 update that patches a total of 238 security...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : gcc43 (SUSE-SU-2018:0300-1) (Stack Clash)

This update for gcc43 fixes the following issues: Security issue fixed : - CVE-2017-1000376: Don't request excutable stack from libffi. bnc1045091 New features : - Add support for retpolines to mitigate the Spectre Variant 2 attack. bnc1074621 - Add support for zero-sized VLAs and allocas with...

OracleVM 3.3 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2018-0016) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - x86: Add another set of MSR accessor functions Borislav Petkov Orabug: 27444923 CVE-2017-5753 - userns: prevent speculative execution Elena Reshetova Orabug: 27444923 CVE-2017-5753 - udf: prevent...