Intel’s ‘Virtual Fences’ Spectre Fix Won’t Protect Against Variant 4

Spectre and Meltdown fixes for Intel chips announced in March, to be embedded into new CPUs, do not address the newly disclosed Variant 4, sources said. Intel introduced hardware-based safeguards to its new chips to protect against the Spectre and Meltdown flaws that rocked the silicon industry...

openSUSE Security Update : qemu (openSUSE-2018-489) (Spectre)

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 pri...

RHEL 7 : Virtualization Manager (RHSA-2018:1674) (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...

RHEL 6 : MRG (RHSA-2018:1642) (Spectre)

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 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 vulnerability from t...

RHEL 6 : Virtualization (RHSA-2018:1688) (Spectre)

An update for org.ovirt.engine-root is now available for RHEV Manager version 3.6. 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...

RHEL 7 : Virtualization (RHSA-2018:1690) (Spectre)

An update for vdsm is now available for RHEV 3.X Hypervisor and Agents Extended Lifecycle Support 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...

RHEL 7 : Virtualization (RHSA-2018:1654) (Spectre)

An update for qemu-kvm-rhev is now available for RHEV 3.X Hypervisor and Agents for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Life Support. 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...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kvm (SUSE-SU-2018:1389-1) (Spectre)

This update for kvm fixes the following 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 al...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : qemu (SUSE-SU-2018:1386-1) (Spectre)

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 pri...

OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2018-0223) (Spectre)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - KVM: SVM: Move spec control call after restore of GS Thomas Gleixner CVE-2018-3639 - x86/bugs: Fix the parameters alignment and missing void Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk CVE-2018-3639 - x86/bugs: Make...

RHEL 7 : Virtualization Manager (RHSA-2018:1676) (Spectre)

An update for org.ovirt.engine-root 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...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for qemu (openSUSE-SU-2018:1380-1)

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...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-4210-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG 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-only ifdescription...

Security update for qemu (important)

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-2018:1389-1 Security update for kvm

This update for kvm fixes the following 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...

SUSE-SU-2018:1386-1 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...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3654-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3654-2 advisory. USN-3654-1 fixed vulnerabilities and added mitigations in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the...

RHEL 7 : qemu-kvm (RHSA-2018:1663) (Spectre)

An update for qemu-kvm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Extended Update Support. 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 fo...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x 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...

Scientific Linux Security Update : qemu-kvm on SL7.x 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...