RHEL 7 : Virtualization Manager (RHSA-2018:2328) (Spectre)

An update for rhvm-setup-plugins is now available for Red Hat Virtualization Engine 4.2. 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...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : libvirt (SUSE-SU-2018:2141-1) (Spectre)

This update for libvirt fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed : - CVE-2018-3639: Add support for 'ssbd' and 'virt-ssbd' CPUID feature bits to address V4 Speculative Store Bypass aka 'Memory Disambiguation' bsc1092885. - CVE-2018-1064: Fix denial of service problem during reading from...

Slackware 14.2 : Slackware 14.2 kernel (SSA:2018-208-01) (Spectre)

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 14.2 to fix security issues. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2018-208-01. The text itself is copyright C Slackware Linux, Inc. include'compat.inc...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : libvirt (SUSE-SU-2018:2082-1) (Spectre)

This update for libvirt fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed : - CVE-2017-5715: Fixes for speculative side channel attacks aka 'SpectreAttack' var2 bsc1079869. - CVE-2018-3639: Add support for 'ssbd' and 'virt-ssbd' CPUID feature bits to address V4 Speculative Store Bypass aka 'Memor...

Spectre attack variant can be remotely mounted to extract sensitive data

By ghostadmin What we know so far about Spectre attacks is that it relies upon execution of malicious code. The code is executed on computers having speculative-execution design flaws in processor chip; once a device is compromised, it becomes possible to obtain sensitive data such as passwords,...

Security Bulletin: IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence has released a fixpack in response to the vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown

Summary IBM has released the following fixpack for IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence in response to CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5754 Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2017-5753 DESCRIPTION: Intel Haswell Xeon, AMD PRO and ARM Cortex A57 CPUs could allow a local authenticated attacke...

NetSpectre — New Remote Spectre Attack Steals Data Over the Network

A team of security researchers has discovered a new Spectre attack that can be launched over the network, unlike all other Spectre variants that require some form of local code execution on the target system. Dubbed "NetSpectre," the new remote side-channel attack, which is related to Spectre...

NetSpectre — New Remote Spectre Attack Steals Data Over the Network

A team of security researchers has discovered a new Spectre attack that can be launched over the network, unlike all other Spectre variants that require some form of local code execution on the target system. Dubbed "NetSpectre ," the new remote side-channel attack, which is related to Spectre...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : microcode_ctl (SUSE-SU-2018:2076-1) (Spectre)

This update for microcodectl fixes the following issues: The Intel CPU Microcode bundle 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 details can be found on:...

Debian DLA-1446-1 : intel-microcode security update (Spectre)

Security researchers identified two software analysis methods that, if used for malicious purposes, have the potential to improperly gather sensitive data from multiple types of computing devices with different vendors processors and operating systems. This update requires an update to the...

SUSE-SU-2018:2076-1 Security update for microcode_ctl

This update for microcodectl fixes the following issues: The Intel CPU Microcode bundle 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 details can be found on:...

Amazon Linux 2 : libvirt (ALAS-2018-1049) (Spectre)

An incomplete fix for CVE-2018-5748 that affects QEMU monitor leading to a resource exhaustion but now also triggered via QEMU guest agent.CVE-2018-1064 qemu/qemumonitor.c in libvirt allows attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a large QEMU reply.CVE-2018-5748 An...

Security Bulletin: IBM QRadar Network Security has released fixpack in response to the vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown

Summary IBM has released the following fixpack for IBM QRadar Network Security in response to CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715 and CVE-2017-5754. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2017-5753 CVEID: CVE-2017-5754 CVEID: CVE-2017-5715 Affected Products and Versions IBM QRadar Network Security 5.4.0...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2018:2250)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2250 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: An industry-wide issue was found in the way man...

Photon OS 1.0 : linux / linux-esx (PhotonOS-PHSA-2018-1.0-0151) (Spectre) (deprecated)

An update of 'linux', 'linux-esx' packages of Photon OS has been released. This kernel update mitigates vulnerability CVE-2018-3639 which is referred to as Speculative Store Bypass issue C Tenable Network Security, Inc. @DEPRECATED@ Disabled on 2/7/2019 The descriptive text and package checks in...

Photon OS 2.0 : linux (PhotonOS-PHSA-2018-2.0-0011) (Spectre) (deprecated)

An update of linux packages for PhotonOS has been released. This kernel update mitigates vulnerabilities CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5715 which are referred to as the variants of Spectre vulnerability. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. @DEPRECATED@ Disabled on 2/7/2019 The descriptive text and...

Spectre Will Haunt Us For a Long Time

During a recent Congressional hearing, Senators voiced concerns about the ongoing Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. While the technical details were predictably glossed over, most of the hearing focused on Intel informing Chinese partners about the flaws six months before they went public...

Debian DLA-1423-1 : linux-4.9 new package (Spectre)

Linux 4.9 has been packaged for Debian 8 as linux-4.9. This provides a supported upgrade path for systems that currently use kernel packages from the 'jessie-backports' suite. There is no need to upgrade systems using Linux 3.16, as that kernel version will also continue to be supported in the LT...

USN-3690-1: AMD Microcode update | Cloud Foundry

Severity High Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 14.04 Description 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...

USN-3690-2: AMD Microcode regression | Cloud Foundry

Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 14.04 Description USN-3690-1 provided updated microcode for AMD processors to address CVE-2017-5715 aka Spectre. Unfortunately, the update caused some systems to fail to boot. This update reverts the update for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. We...