kernel: hw: Spectre SWAPGS gadget vulnerability

A Spectre gadget was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of system interrupts. An attacker with local access could use this information to reveal private data through a Spectre like side channel...

CVE-2019-11743

Navigation events were not fully adhering to the W3C's "Navigation-Timing Level 2" draft specification in some instances for the unload event, which restricts access to detailed timing attributes to only be same-origin. This resulted in potential cross-origin information exposure of history throu...

Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 60.9 — Mozilla

A use-after-free vulnerability can occur while manipulating video elements if the body is freed while still in use. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. Some HTML elements, such as and , can contain literal angle brackets without treating them as markup. It is possible to pass a liter...

Updated wpa_supplicant and hostapd packages fix security vulnerability

A number of potential side channel attacks were discovered in the SAE implementations used by both hostapd AP and wpasupplicant infrastructure BSS station/mesh station. SAE Simultaneous Authentication of Equals is also known as WPA3-Personal. The discovered side channel attacks may be able to lea...

MGASA-2019-0229 Updated wpa_supplicant and hostapd packages fix security vulnerability

A number of potential side channel attacks were discovered in the SAE implementations used by both hostapd AP and wpasupplicant infrastructure BSS station/mesh station. SAE Simultaneous Authentication of Equals is also known as WPA3-Personal. The discovered side channel attacks may be able to lea...

OVMF security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2019:2125 An update for ovmf is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity...

Amazon Linux 2 : libvirt (ALAS-2019-1274) (MDSUM/RIDL) (MFBDS/RIDL/ZombieLoad) (MLPDS/RIDL) (MSBDS/Fallout)

Uncacheable memory on some microprocessors utilizing speculative execution may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure via a side channel with local access. CVE-2019-11091 Modern Intel microprocessors implement hardware-level micro-optimizations to improve the...

Scientific Linux Security Update : nss, nss-softokn, nss-util, and nspr on SL7.x x86_64 (20190806)

Netscape Portable Runtime NSPR provides platform independence for non- GUI operating system facilities. The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: nss 3.44.0, nss-softokn 3.44.0, nss-util 3.44.0, nspr 4.21.0. Security Fixes : - ROHNP: Key Extraction Side Channel in...

Scientific Linux Security Update : ovmf on 7.x (noarch) (2019:2125)

The remote Scientific Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SLSA-2019:2125-1 advisory. Security Fixes: edk2: Privilege escalation via processing of malformed files in TianoCompress.c CVE-2017-5731 edk2: Privilege escalation via...

Scientific Linux Security Update : openssl on SL7.x x86_64 (20190806)

Security Fixes : - openssl: 0-byte record padding oracle CVE-2019-1559 - openssl: timing side channel attack in the DSA signature algorithm CVE-2018-0734 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text is C Scientific Linux. include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid128247;...

Greenbone OS - 'Spectre SWAPGS' Gadget Vulnerability (Aug 2019)

The Linux Kernel in Greenbone OS is prone to an information disclosure vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 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 =...

Meltdown and Spectre class vulnerabilities

New types of side channel attacks impact most processors including Intel, AMD, ARM, etc. These attacks allow malicious userspace processes to read kernel memory, thus potentially causing kernel sensitive information to leak...

Important: libvirt

Issue Overview: Uncacheable memory on some microprocessors utilizing speculative execution may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure via a side channel with local access. CVE-2019-11091 Modern Intel microprocessors implement hardware-level micro-optimizations to...

OpenSSL 1.0.2 < 1.0.2t Multiple Vulnerabilities

The version of OpenSSL installed on the remote host is prior to 1.0.2t. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the 1.0.2t advisory. - In situations where an attacker receives automated notification of the success or failure of a decryption attempt an attacker, aft...

hardware: Micro-architectural Load Port Data Sampling - Information Leak (MLPDS)

Microprocessors use a ‘load port’ subcomponent to perform load operations from memory or IO. During a load operation, the load port receives data from the memory or IO subsystem and then provides the data to the CPU registers and operations in the CPU’s pipelines. Stale load operations results ar...

openSUSE Security Update : libcryptopp (openSUSE-2019-1968)

This update for libcryptopp fixes the following issues : - CVE-2019-14318: Fixed a timing side channel vulnerability in the ECDSA signature generation boo1143532. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE Security Update...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for libcryptopp (openSUSE-SU-2019:1968-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2019 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...

OPENSUSE-SU-2019:1968-1 Security update for libcryptopp

This update for libcryptopp fixes the following issues: - CVE-2019-14318: Fixed a timing side channel vulnerability in the ECDSA signature generation boo1143532...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : wpa_supplicant and hostapd vulnerability (USN-4098-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4098-1 advisory. It was discovered that wpasupplicant and hostapd were vulnerable to a side channel attack against EAP- pwd. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to...

openssl security update

1.0.2k-19.0.1 - Bump release for rebuild. 1.0.2k-19 - close the RSA decryption 9 lives of Bleichenbacher cat timing side channel 1649568 1.0.2k-18 - fix CVE-2018-0734 - DSA signature local timing side channel - fix CVE-2019-1559 - 0-byte record padding oracle - close the RSA decryption One & done...