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Mitigating speculative execution side channel hardware vulnerabilities
On January 3rd, 2018, Microsoft released an advisory and security updates related to a newly discovered class of hardware vulnerabilities involving speculative execution side channels known as Spectre and Meltdown that affect AMD, ARM, and Intel CPUs to varying degrees. If you haven’t had a chanc...
Mitigating speculative execution side channel hardware vulnerabilities
On January 3rd, 2018, Microsoft released an advisory and security updates related to a newly discovered class of hardware vulnerabilities involving speculative execution side channels known as Spectre and Meltdown that affect AMD, ARM, and Intel CPUs to varying degrees. If you haven’t had a chanc...
FreeBSD-SA-18:03.speculative_execution
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-18:03.speculativeexecution Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Speculative Execution Vulnerabilities Category: core Module: kernel Announced: 2018-03-1...
kernel security and bug fix update
2.6.32-696.23.1.OL6 - Update genkey bug 25599697 2.6.32-696.23.1 - scsi avoid a permanent stop of the scsi device's request queue Ewan Milne 1519857 1513455 - x86 retpoline/hyperv: Convert assembler indirect jumps Waiman Long 1543022 1535645 - x86 specctrl: Upgrade GCC retpoline warning to an err...
Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3594-1)
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...
FreeBSD -- Speculative Execution Vulnerabilities
Problem Description: 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 speculative...
March Patch Tuesday – 75 Microsoft vulnerabilities, 7 for Adobe
Today's Patch Tuesday covers a lot of vulnerabilities, but in terms of critical updates, it is still light. Out of the 75 vulnerabilities covered, only 15 are marked as critical. Adobe has released patches as well, covering 7 vulnerabilities. All of the critical vulnerabilities from Microsoft are...
Microsoft Patches 15 Critical Bugs in March Patch Tuesday Update
Microsoft patched 15 critical vulnerabilities this month as part of its March Patch Tuesday roundup of fixes. In all, the company issued 75 fixes, with 61 rated important. Products receiving the most urgent patches included Microsoft browsers and browser-related technologies such as the company’s...
13 Critical Flaws Discovered in AMD Ryzen and EPYC Processors
Security researchers claimed to have discovered 13 critical Spectre/Meltdown-like vulnerabilities throughout AMD's Ryzen and EPYC lines of processors that could allow attackers to access sensitive data, install persistent malware inside the chip, and gain full access to the compromised systems. A...
March 13, 2018—KB4088879 (Security-only update)
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March 13, 2018—KB4088878 (Security-only update)
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March 13, 2018—KB4088880 (Security-only update)
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KB4088879: Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 March 2018 Security Update (Meltdown)(Spectre)
The remote Windows host is missing security update 4088879 or cumulative update 4088876. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - An vulnerability exists within microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and indirect branch prediction, which may allow an attacker with local...
KB4088878: Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 March 2018 Security Update (Meltdown)(Spectre)
The remote Windows host is missing security update 4088878 or cumulative update 4088875. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - An vulnerability exists within microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and indirect branch prediction, which may allow an attacker with local...
SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:0660-1) (Spectre)
The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2017-5715: Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and indirect branch prediction may allow unauthorized disclosure of information...
KB4088880: Windows Server 2012 March 2018 Security Update (Meltdown)(Spectre)
The remote Windows host is missing security update 4088880 or cumulative update 4088877. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - An vulnerability exists within microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and indirect branch prediction, which may allow an attacker with local...
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerability (USN-3594-1)
The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3594-1 advisory. USN-3542-1 mitigated CVE-2017-5715 Spectre Variant 2 for the amd64 architecture in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This update provides the compiler-based retpoline kernel...
USN-3594-1: Linux kernel vulnerability
USN-3542-1 mitigated CVE-2017-5715 Spectre Variant 2 for the amd64 architecture in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This update provides the compiler-based retpoline kernel mitigation for the amd64 and i386 architectures. Original advisory details: Jann Horn discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative...
USN-3594-1 linux vulnerability
USN-3542-1 mitigated CVE-2017-5715 Spectre Variant 2 for the amd64 architecture in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This update provides the compiler-based retpoline kernel mitigation for the amd64 and i386 architectures. Original advisory details: Jann Horn discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative...
SUSE SLES11 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2018:0638-1) (Meltdown) (Spectre)
This update for xen fixes several issues. This new feature was included : - add script and sysv service to watch for vcpu online/offline events in a HVM domU These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5754: Prevent information leaks via side effects of speculative...