Apple Mac OS X Security Updates (HT208397)

Apple Mac OS X is prone to multiple information disclosure vulnerabilities. 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 CPE =...

VMSA-2018-0004 : VMware vSphere, Workstation and Fusion updates add Hypervisor-Assisted Guest Remediation for speculative execution issue (Spectre)

New speculative-execution control mechanism for Virtual Machines Updates of vCenter Server, ESXi, Workstation and Fusion virtualize the new speculative-execution control mechanism for Virtual Machines VMs. As a result, a patched Guest Operating System Guest OS can remediate the Branch Target...

openSUSE Security Update : ucode-intel (openSUSE-2018-24) (Spectre)

This update for ucode-intel fixes the following issues : Update to Intel CPU Microcode version 20180108 boo1075262 - The pre-released microcode fixing some important security issues is now officially published and included in the added tarball. New firmware updates since last version 20170707 are...

NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver 384.x / 385.x / 386.x < 386.07 / 390.x < 390.65 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Meltdown)(Spectre)

The NVIDIA GPU display driver software on the remote host is missing a security update. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid105777; scriptversion"1.14";...

OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2018-0008) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - x86/ia32: save and clear registers on syscall. Jamie Iles Orabug: 27355759 CVE-2017-5754 - x86/IBRS: Save current status of MSRIA32SPECCTRL Boris Ostrovsky - pti: Rename X86FEATUREKAISER to...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : ucode-intel (SUSE-SU-2018:0067-1) (Spectre)

This update for ucode-intel fixes the following issues: Updated to Intel CPU Microcode version 20180108 bsc1075262 The pre-released microcode fixing some important security issues is now officially published and included in the added tarball. New firmware updates since last version 20170707 are...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3531-1)

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...

USN-3531-1: Intel Microcode update

It was 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 could use this to expose sensitive information, including kernel memory. CVE-2017-5715 This...

USN-3531-1 intel-microcode update

It was 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 could use this to expose sensitive information, including kernel memory. CVE-2017-5715 This...

Meltdown and Spectre fallout: patching problems persist

Last week, the disclosure by multiple teams from Graz and Pennsylvania University, Rambus, Data61, Cyberus Technology, and Google Project Zero of vulnerabilities under the aliases Meltdown and Spectre rocked the security world, sending vendors scurrying to create patches, if at all possible, and...

SUSE-SU-2018:0069-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. This update is only provided as a fix update for IBM Z platform. - CVE-2017-5753 / 'Spectre Attack': IBM Z fixes were included but not enabled in the previous update. This update enables those fixes. -...

Tracking changes in CERT bulletins and Nessus plugins using Vulners Time Machine

If you use Vulners.com vulnerability search engine, you probably know that it has a real "Time Machine". Each time Vulners sees some changes on a source page it creates a new version of security object. And you can see the full history of changes in a nice GUI: In most cases, the vendor just...

Fedora 26 : firefox (2018-fb582aabcc)

Update to 57.0.4 - Security fixes to address the Meltdown and Spectre timing attacks - https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/01/03/mitigations -landing-new-class-timing-attack/ - Require new nss 3.34 fixed 1531031 - Disabled ARM on all Fedoras due to 1523912 Note that Tenable Network Security...

Home Download Photon OS User Documentation FAQ Security Advisories Related Information Lightwave - PHSA-2018-1.0-0098

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...

Critical: kernel

Issue Overview: An updated kernel release for Amazon Linux has been made available which prevents speculative execution of indirect branches within the kernel. This release incorporates latest stable open source Linux security improvements to address CVE-2017-5715 within the kernel and builds upo...

openSUSE Security Update : qemu (openSUSE-2018-20) (Spectre)

This update for qemu fixes the following issues : This update for qemu fixes the following issues : A mitigation for a security flaw has been applied : - CVE-2017-5715: QEMU was updated to allow passing through new MSR and CPUID flags from the host VM to the CPU, to allow enabling/disabling branc...

Microsoft’s Jan. 2018 Patch Tuesday Lowdown

Microsoft on Tuesday released 14 security updates, including fixes for the Spectre and Meltdown flaws detailed last week, as well as a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Office that is being exploited in the wild. Separately, Adobe pushed a security update to its Flash Player software. Last week...

January 10, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Common Sense” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! January 10, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Seven Ransomware...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : qemu (SUSE-SU-2018:0056-1) (Spectre)

This update for qemu fixes the following issues: A mitigation for a security flaw has been applied : - CVE-2017-5715: QEMU was updated to allow passing through new MSR and CPUID flags from the host VM to the CPU, to allow enabling/disabling branch prediction features in the Intel CPU. bsc1068032...

OracleVM 3.4 : xen (OVMSA-2018-0005) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : please see Oracle VM Security Advisory OVMSA-2018-0005 for details. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The package checks in this plugin were extracted from OracleVM Security Advisory OVMSA-2018-0005...