RHEL 7 : microcode_ctl (RHSA-2018:0034) (Spectre)

An update for microcodectl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Extended Update Support. 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 availabl...

Spectre Information Disclosure Proof Of Concept

include include include ifdef MSCVER include / for rdtscp and clflush / pragma optimize"gt",on else include / for rdtscp and clflush / endif / Victim code. / unsigned int array1size = 16; uint8t unused164; uint8t array1160 = 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16 ; uint8t unused264; uint8t...

Scientific Linux Security Update : microcode_ctl on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20180103) (Spectre)

Security Fixes : - An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructions a commonly used performance optimization. There are three primary variants of the issue which differ in the way the speculative execution can be...

Scientific Linux Security Update : qemu-kvm on SL7.x x86_64 (20180104) (Spectre)

Security Fixes : - An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructions a commonly used performance optimization. There are three primary variants of the issue which differ in the way the speculative execution can be...

Spectre Vulnerability in CPU Processor Kernel

CPU hardware is a set of firmware that runs in the CPU Central Processing Unit to manage and control the CPU. The Spectre vulnerability exists in the CPU processor kernel, where an attacker can use a malicious application to gain access to private data that should be quarantined due to Intel's...