Microsoft bug bounty program: $250k for reporting Meltdown & Spectre type flaws

By Waqas The bug bounty program will remain open until December 31st, 2018. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Microsoft bug bounty program: $250k for reporting Meltdown & Spectre type flaws...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for ucode-intel (openSUSE-SU-2018:0710-1)

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 ucode-intel (important)

This update for ucode-intel fixes the following issues: The Intel CPU microcode version was updated to version 20180312. This update enables the IBPB+IBRS based mitigations of the Spectre v2 flaws boo1085207 CVE-2017-5715 - New Platforms - BDX-DE EGW A0 6-56-5:10 e000009 - SKX B1 6-55-3:97 100014...

New Microsoft Bug Bounty Program Looks To Squash The Next Spectre, Meltdown

In the wake of the Meltdown and Spectre flaws, Microsoft has rolled out a new bug bounty program targeting speculative execution side channel vulnerabilities. The limited time program is open until December 31, and offers up to $250,000 for identifying new categories of speculative execution...

This Week in Security News: The Cost of Being Unprepared

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, a Georgia bill has the potential to threaten security researchers, and a new report says 77 percent of businesses lack a cybersecurity...

SUSE-SU-2018:0705-1 Security update for microcode_ctl

This update for ucode-intel fixes the following issues: The Intel CPU microcode version was updated to version 20180312. This update enables the IBPB+IBRS based mitigations of the Spectre v2 flaws boo1085207 CVE-2017-5715 - New Platforms - BDX-DE EGW A0 6-56-5:10 e000009 - SKX B1 6-55-3:97 100014...

SUSE-SU-2018:0708-1 Security update for ucode-intel

This update for ucode-intel fixes the following issues: The Intel CPU microcode version was updated to version 20180312. This update enables the IBPB+IBRS based mitigations of the Spectre v2 flaws boo1085207 CVE-2017-5715 - New Platforms - BDX-DE EGW A0 6-56-5:10 e000009 - SKX B1 6-55-3:97 100014...

Intel Details CPU ‘Virtual Fences’ Fix As Safeguard Against Spectre, Meltdown Flaws

Intel introduced hardware-based protections to its new chips to protect against the Spectre and Meltdown flaws that rocked the silicon industry when the vulnerabilities were made public in early 2018. Spectre and Meltdown, which account for three variants of a side-channel analysis security issue...

USN-3597-2: Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3597-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 17.10. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 17.10 for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. USNS 3541-2 and 3523-2 provided mitigations for Spectre and Meltdown CVE-2017-5715,...

USN-3597-2 linux-hwe vulnerabilities

USN-3597-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 17.10. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 17.10 for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. USNS 3541-2 and 3523-2 provided mitigations for Spectre and Meltdown CVE-2017-5715,...

USN-3597-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

USNS 3541-1 and 3523-1 provided mitigations for Spectre and Meltdown CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5754 for the i386, amd64, and ppc64el architectures in Ubuntu 17.10. This update provides the corresponding mitigations for the arm64 architecture. Original advisory details: Jann Horn...

FreeBSD : FreeBSD -- Speculative Execution Vulnerabilities (74daa370-2797-11e8-95ec-a4badb2f4699) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

A number of issues relating to speculative execution were found last year and publicly announced January 3rd. Two of these, known as Meltdown and Spectre V2, are addressed here. CVE-2017-5754 Meltdown - ------------------------ This issue relies on an affected CPU speculatively executing...

CentOS 6 : kernel (CESA-2018:0512) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 vulnerability from th...

Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2018-0512) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2018:0512 : An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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, ...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2018:0678-1) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5754: Prevent information leaks via side effects of speculative execution, aka 'Spectre' and 'Meltdown' attacks bsc1074562, bsc1068032 - CVE-2018-5683: The vgadrawtext function...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20180313) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

Security Fixes : - hw: cpu: speculative execution branch target injection s390-only CVE-2017-5715, Important - hw: cpu: speculative execution bounds-check bypass s390 and powerpc CVE-2017-5753, Important - hw: cpu: speculative execution permission faults handling powerpc-only CVE-2017-5754 Bug...

Ubuntu 17.10 : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3597-1) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

USNS 3541-1 and 3523-1 provided mitigations for Spectre and Meltdown CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5754 for the i386, amd64, and ppc64el architectures in Ubuntu 17.10. This update provides the corresponding mitigations for the arm64 architecture. Original advisory details : Jann Horn...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3597-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the 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...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3597-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the 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...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3597-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3597-2 advisory. USN-3597-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 17.10. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement H...