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July 9, 2019—KB4507456 (Security-only update)

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SWAPGS Spectre Side-Channel Vulnerability

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA is aware of a vulnerability CVE-2019-1125 known as SWAPGS, which is a variant of Spectre Variant 1—that affects modern computer processors. This vulnerability can be exploited to steal sensitive data present in a computer systems' memory...

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] [DLA 1731-1] linux security update

Package : linux Version : 3.16.64-1 CVE ID : CVE-2016-10741 CVE-2017-5753 CVE-2017-13305 CVE-2018-3639 CVE-2018-5848 CVE-2018-5953 CVE-2018-12896 CVE-2018-13053 CVE-2018-16862 CVE-2018-16884 CVE-2018-17972 CVE-2018-18281 CVE-2018-18690 CVE-2018-18710 CVE-2018-19824 CVE-2018-19985 CVE-2018-20169...

[SECURITY] [DLA 1422-2] linux security update

Package : linux Version : 3.16.57-2 CVE ID : CVE-2017-5715 CVE-2017-5753 CVE-2018-1066 CVE-2018-1093 CVE-2018-1130 CVE-2018-3665 CVE-2018-5814 CVE-2018-9422 CVE-2018-10853 CVE-2018-10940 CVE-2018-11506 CVE-2018-12233 CVE-2018-1000204 Debian Bug : 898165 The previous update to linux failed to buil...

[slackware-security] Slackware 14.2 kernel

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 14.2 to mitigate the speculative side channel attack known as Spectre variant 1. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/linux-4.4.118/: Upgraded. This kernel includes user pointer sanitization mitigation for the...

Updated wireshark packages fix security vulnerabilities

The MRDISC dissector could crash CVE-2017-17997. The IxVeriWave file parser could crash CVE-2018-5334. The WCP dissector could crash CVE-2018-5335. Multiple dissectors could crash CVE-2018-5336. Prior to this release dumpcap enabled the Linux kernel’s BPF JIT compiler via the net.core.bpfjitenabl...

MGASA-2018-0071 Updated wireshark packages fix security vulnerabilities

The MRDISC dissector could crash CVE-2017-17997. The IxVeriWave file parser could crash CVE-2018-5334. The WCP dissector could crash CVE-2018-5335. Multiple dissectors could crash CVE-2018-5336. Prior to this release dumpcap enabled the Linux kernel’s BPF JIT compiler via the net.core.bpfjitenabl...