New SWAPGS Side-Channel Attack Bypasses Spectre and Meltdown Defenses

Millions of newer Intel microprocessors manufactured after 2012 are vulnerable to a new type of side-channel attack dubbed SWAPGS. SWAPGS is similar to existing side-channel attacks such as Spectre and Meltdown and similarly could allow a hacker to gain access to sensitive data such as passwords...

Medium: kernel

Issue Overview: There is a newly discovered variant side-channel attack of Spectre V1 which leverages SWAPGS instructions to bypass KPTI/KVA mitigations. This could lead to a kernel information disclosure Affected Packages: kernel Issue Correction: Run yum update kernel or yum update --advisory...

Security Bulletin:IBM Security Identity Adapters has released a fix in response to the OpenSSL vulnerabilities

Summary IBM has released the following a fix for IBM Security Identity Adapters in response to OpenSSL vulnerabilities CVE-2018-0732, CVE-2018-0733, CVE-2018-0734, CVE-2018-0739 and CVE-2019-1559 Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-0732 DESCRIPTION: OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service,...

Side-channel Attack

openjdk is vulnerable to side-channel attack. An unknown difficult to exploit vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker with access to gain unauthorizaed access to critical system resources due to security risks arising from using deprecated functions within Elliptic Curve EC cryptography...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : libgcrypt (SUSE-SU-2019:1971-1)

This update for libgcrypt fixes the following issues : Security issue fixed : CVE-2019-12904: Fixed a flush-and-reload side-channel attack in the AES implementation bsc1138939. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisor...

CentOS 6 : java-1.7.0-openjdk (CESA-2019:1840)

An update for java-1.7.0-openjdk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. 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 rating, is available for each...

CentOS Update for java-11-openjdk CESA-2019:1810 centos7

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

Scientific Linux Security Update : java-1.7.0-openjdk on SL7.x x86_64 (20190724)

Security Fixes : - OpenJDK: Side-channel attack risks in Elliptic Curve EC cryptography Security, 8208698 CVE-2019-2745 - OpenJDK: Insufficient checks of suppressed exceptions in deserialization Utilities, 8212328 CVE-2019-2762 - OpenJDK: Unbounded memory allocation during deserialization in...

CentOS Update for java CESA-2019:1840 centos6

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

java security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2019:1839 An update for java-1.7.0-openjdk 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 detaile...

Amazon Linux 2 : java-11-amazon-corretto (ALAS-2019-1246)

OpenJDK: Insufficient restriction of privileges in AccessController Security, 8216381 CVE-2019-2786 OpenJDK: Unbounded memory allocation during deserialization in Collections Utilities, 8213432 CVE-2019-2769 libpng: pngimagefree in png.c in libpng has a use-after-free because pngimagefreefunction...

RHEL 7 : java-1.7.0-openjdk (RHSA-2019:1839)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1839 advisory. The java-1.7.0-openjdk packages provide the OpenJDK 7 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJDK 7 Java Software Development Kit. Security...

openSUSE Security Update : libgcrypt (openSUSE-2019-1792)

This update for libgcrypt fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : - CVE-2019-12904: The C implementation of AES is vulnerable to a flush-and-reload side-channel attack because physical addresses are available to other processes. The C implementation is used on platforms where an...

Scientific Linux Security Update : java-1.7.0-openjdk on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20190723)

Security Fixes : - OpenJDK: Side-channel attack risks in Elliptic Curve EC cryptography Security, 8208698 CVE-2019-2745 - OpenJDK: Insufficient checks of suppressed exceptions in deserialization Utilities, 8212328 CVE-2019-2762 - OpenJDK: Unbounded memory allocation during deserialization in...

RHEL 6 : java-1.7.0-openjdk (RHSA-2019:1840)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1840 advisory. The java-1.7.0-openjdk packages provide the OpenJDK 7 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJDK 7 Java Software Development Kit. Security...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: java-1.7.0-openjdk security update

An update for java-1.7.0-openjdk 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 rating, is available for each...

Scientific Linux Security Update : java-1.8.0-openjdk on SL7.x x86_64 (20190722)

Security Fixes : - OpenJDK: Side-channel attack risks in Elliptic Curve EC cryptography Security, 8208698 CVE-2019-2745 - OpenJDK: Insufficient checks of suppressed exceptions in deserialization Utilities, 8212328 CVE-2019-2762 - OpenJDK: Unbounded memory allocation during deserialization in...

RHEL 7 : java-11-openjdk (RHSA-2019:1810)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1810 advisory. The java-11-openjdk packages provide the OpenJDK 11 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJDK 11 Java Software Development Kit. Security Fixe...

RHEL 6 : java-1.8.0-openjdk (RHSA-2019:1811)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1811 advisory. The java-1.8.0-openjdk packages provide the OpenJDK 8 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJDK 8 Java Software Development Kit. Security...

RHEL 7 : java-1.8.0-openjdk (RHSA-2019:1815)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1815 advisory. The java-1.8.0-openjdk packages provide the OpenJDK 8 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJDK 8 Java Software Development Kit. Security...