Slackware 14.2 : Slackware 14.2 kernel (SSA:2018-037-01) (Spectre)

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 14.2 to mitigate the speculative side channel attack known as Spectre variant 2. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2018-037-01. The text itself is...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.16 and fixes several security issues. The most important fixes in this update is for the security issue named "Spectre, variant 2 CVE-2017-5715" that is partly mitigated by enabling retpoline support. For full retpoline mitigation, kernel needs to ...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.4.114 and fixes several security issues. The most important fixes in this update is for the security issue named "Spectre, variant 2 CVE-2017-5715" that is partly mitigated by enabling retpoline support. For full retpoline mitigation, kernel needs to ...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : gcc43 (SUSE-SU-2018:0300-1) (Stack Clash)

This update for gcc43 fixes the following issues: Security issue fixed : - CVE-2017-1000376: Don't request excutable stack from libffi. bnc1045091 New features : - Add support for retpolines to mitigate the Spectre Variant 2 attack. bnc1074621 - Add support for zero-sized VLAs and allocas with...

Spectre Variant 2 (CVE 2017-5715) Branch Target Injection Update Disable (KB4078130)

This host is missing a critical update according to Microsoft KB4078130 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...