Important kernel security update: New kernel 2.6.32-042stab138.1 for Virtuozzo Containers for Linux 4.7, Server Bare Metal 5.0

This update provides a new kernel 2.6.32-042stab138.1 for Virtuozzo Containers for Linux 4.7 and Server Bare Metal 5.0 based on the RHEL 6.10 kernel 2.6.32-754.14.2.el6. The new kernel inherits security fixes for the Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data MDS vulnerability from the RHEL kernel...

Scientific Linux Security Update : qemu-kvm on SL7.x x86_64 (20190514) (MDSUM/RIDL) (MFBDS/RIDL/ZombieLoad) (MLPDS/RIDL) (MSBDS/Fallout)

Security Fixes : - A flaw was found in the implementation of the 'fill buffer', a mechanism used by modern CPUs when a cache-miss is made on L1 CPU cache. If an attacker can generate a load operation that would create a page fault, the execution will continue speculatively with incorrect data fro...

Oracle Linux 7 : kernel (ELSA-2019-1168)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2019-1168 advisory. - x86 x86/speculation/mds: Add SMT warning message Waiman Long 1692597 1692598 1692599 1690335 1690348 1690358 CVE-2018-12126 CVE-2018-12127...

CentOS 6 : kernel (CESA-2019:1169) (MDSUM/RIDL) (MFBDS/RIDL/ZombieLoad) (MLPDS/RIDL) (MSBDS/Fallout)

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...

RHEL 7 : redhat-virtualization-host (RHSA-2019:1207)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1207 advisory. The redhat-virtualization-host packages provide the Red Hat Virtualization Host. These packages include redhat-release-virtualization-host,...

Scientific Linux Security Update : libvirt on SL7.x x86_64 (20190514) (MDSUM/RIDL) (MFBDS/RIDL/ZombieLoad) (MLPDS/RIDL) (MSBDS/Fallout)

Security Fixes : - A flaw was found in the implementation of the 'fill buffer', a mechanism used by modern CPUs when a cache-miss is made on L1 CPU cache. If an attacker can generate a load operation that would create a page fault, the execution will continue speculatively with incorrect data fro...

CentOS 7 : libvirt (CESA-2019:1177) (MDSUM/RIDL) (MFBDS/RIDL/ZombieLoad) (MLPDS/RIDL) (MSBDS/Fallout)

An update for libvirt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 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 t...

Intel ZombieLoad Side-Channel Attack: 10 Takeaways

Intel on Tuesday revealed a new class of speculative execution vulnerabilities, dubbed Microarchitectural Data Sampling MDS, which impact all its modern CPUs. The flaws all ultimately depend on different ways of executing side channel attacks to siphon data from impacted systems – and result in...

kernel, perf, python security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2019:1169 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...

qemu security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2019:1181 An update for qemu-kvm 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 severit...

Zombieload: Intel CPU exposure of a new side channel attack-exploit warning-the black bar safety net

! Security personnel recently discovered for Intel processor of the new side channel attack, which is also following the earlier Meltdown, the Spectre and Foreshadow after a fairly serious security problems. This vulnerability may allow an attacker to obtain the current processor is processing th...

Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center (Apr 2019 CPU)

The version of Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control installed on the remote host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities in Enterprise Manager Base Platform component: - A deserialization vulnerability in Apache Commons FileUpload allows for remote code execution. CVE-2016-1000031 - An...

Oracle Linux 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2019-4628)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2019-4628 advisory. - x86/mds: Add empty commit for CVE-2019-11091 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Orabug: 29721848 CVE-2019-11091 - x86/speculation/mds: Make mdsmitigation mutable...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2019-4636)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2019-4636 advisory. - x86/speculation/mds: Make cpumatches cpuinit Patrick Colp Orabug: 29751729 CVE-2018-12126 CVE-2018-12130 CVE-2018-12127 CVE-2019-11091 -...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2019-4637)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2019-4637 advisory. - x86/speculation/mds: Make cpumatches cpuinit Patrick Colp Orabug: 29752091 CVE-2018-12126 CVE-2018-12130 CVE-2018-12127 CVE-2019-11091 -...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2019-4629)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2019-4629 advisory. - x86/mds: Add empty commit for CVE-2019-11091 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Orabug: 29721935 CVE-2019-11091 - x86/speculation: Support 'mitigations='...

RHEL 7 : libvirt (RHSA-2019:1186)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1186 advisory. The libvirt library contains a C API for managing and interacting with the virtualization capabilities of Linux and other operating systems...

Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2019-1169)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2019-1169 advisory. - x86 x86/speculation/mds: Add SMT warning message Waiman Long 1692386 1692387 1692388 CVE-2018-12126 CVE-2018-12127 CVE-2018-12130 - x86...

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...

hardware: Microarchitectural Data Sampling Uncacheable Memory (MDSUM)

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...