January 8, 2019—KB4480975 (Monthly Rollup)

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Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

4.1.12-124.24.1 - pinctrl: amd: Use devmpinctrlregister for pinctrl registration Laxman Dewangan Orabug: 27539246 CVE-2017-18174 - mlock: fix mlock count can not decrease in race condition Yisheng Xie Orabug: 27677611 CVE-2017-18221 - perf/core: Fix the perfcputimemaxpercent check Tan Xiaojun...

Fedora 28 : kernel (2018-db0d3e157e) (Spectre)

The v4.16.11 kernel includes important fixes across the tree Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing addition...

Fedora 28 : 2:qemu (2018-44f8a7454d) (Spectre)

New CPU features for speculative store bypass 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...

Fedora 28 : xen (2018-5521156807) (Spectre)

Speculative Store Bypass XSA-263, CVE-2018-3639 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues...

Fedora 28 : libvirt (2018-527698a904) (Spectre)

Add new CPU features for speculative store bypass 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...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : qemu (SUSE-SU-2018:2340-1) (Spectre)

This update for qemu to version 2.11.2 fixes the following issues: Security issue fixed : - CVE-2018-11806: Fix heap buffer overflow issue that can happen while reassembling fragmented datagrams bsc1096223. - CVE-2018-3639: Mitigation functionality for Speculative Store Bypass issue in x86...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : qemu (SUSE-SU-2018:3927-1)

This update for qemu fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : CVE-2018-10839: Fixed NE2000 NIC emulation support that is vulnerable to an integer overflow, which could lead to buffer overflow issue. It could occur when receiving packets over the network. A user inside guest could use...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : ucode-intel (SUSE-SU-2018:1926-1) (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:...

EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2018-1433)

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - It was found that paravirtpatchcall/jump functions in the arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c in the Linux kernel mishandles certain indirect calls, whic...

Top 2018 Security and Privacy Stories

It was only three days into 2018 when one of the year’s biggest security stories broke about the Meltdown and Spectre flaws in modern microprocessors. From there, the calendar filled quickly with both privacy and security SNAFUs. While some of year’s privacy and security missteps were just a...

2019: The Year Ahead in Cybersecurity

2018 may have been filled with cybersecurity incidents, but the infosec community is gearing up for what the New Year will bring. From emerging cyber-threat attacks surfaces, new APT groups, and more regulations around data privacy, 2019 is set to be another big year in the cybersecurity space...

MGASA-2018-0487 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.89 and fixes at least the following security issues: Cross-hyperthread Spectre v2 mitigation is now provided by the Single Thread Indirect Branch Predictors STIBP support. Note that STIBP also requires the functionality be supported by the Intel...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.89 and fixes at least the following security issues: Cross-hyperthread Spectre v2 mitigation is now provided by the Single Thread Indirect Branch Predictors STIBP support. Note that STIBP also requires the functionality be supported by the Intel...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2018:3843)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:3843 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: NULL pointer dereference in...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

Security update for qemu (important)

This update for qemu fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2018-10839: Fixed NE2000 NIC emulation support that is vulnerable to an integer overflow, which could lead to buffer overflow issue. It could occur when receiving packets over the network. A user inside guest could use...

openSUSE Security Update : qemu (openSUSE-2018-1483)

This update for qemu fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : - CVE-2018-10839: Fixed NE2000 NIC emulation support that is vulnerable to an integer overflow, which could lead to buffer overflow issue. It could occur when receiving packets over the network. A user inside guest could us...

Design/Logic Flaw

The HPE-provided Windows firmware installer for certain Gen9, Gen8, G7,and G6 HPE servers allows local disclosure of privileged information. This issue was resolved in previously provided firmware updates as follows. The HPE Windows firmware installer was updated in the system ROM updates which...

CVE-2018-7112

The HPE-provided Windows firmware installer for certain Gen9, Gen8, G7,and G6 HPE servers allows local disclosure of privileged information. This issue was resolved in previously provided firmware updates as follows. The HPE Windows firmware installer was updated in the system ROM updates which...