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...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

4.1.12-124.29.3.1 - x86/speculation: Exclude ATOMs from speculation through SWAPGS Thomas Gleixner Orabug: 29967571 CVE-2019-1125 - x86/speculation: Enable Spectre v1 swapgs mitigations Josh Poimboeuf Orabug: 29967571 CVE-2019-1125 - x86/speculation: Prepare entry code for Spectre v1 swapgs...

Microsoft Lab Offers $300K For Working Azure Exploits

Las Vegas – In an attempt to sniff out bugs in its Azure cloud platform, Microsoft announced at Black Hat USA 2019 on Monday that it will offer rewards of up to $300,000 for researchers who launch successful test exploits for the platform. Microsoft has launched a dedicated Azure cloud host testi...

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. CVE-2019-1125 Affected Packages: kernel Note: This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2...

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...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. 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...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 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 available for...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Extended Lifecycle 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 available for...

openSUSE Security Update : ucode-intel (openSUSE-2019-1806) (MDSUM/RIDL) (MFBDS/RIDL/ZombieLoad) (MLPDS/RIDL) (MSBDS/Fallout)

This update for ucode-intel fixes the following issues : This update contains the Intel QSR 2019.1 Microcode release bsc1111331 Four new speculative execution information leak issues have been identified in Intel CPUs. bsc1111331 - CVE-2018-12126: Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data Sampling MSB...

CVE-2019-9815

If hyperthreading is not disabled, a timing attack vulnerability exists, similar to previous Spectre attacks. Apple has shipped macOS 10.14.5 with an option to disable hyperthreading in applications running untrusted code in a thread through a new sysctl. Firefox now makes use of it on the main...

Design/Logic Flaw

If hyperthreading is not disabled, a timing attack vulnerability exists, similar to previous Spectre attacks. Apple has shipped macOS 10.14.5 with an option to disable hyperthreading in applications running untrusted code in a thread through a new sysctl. Firefox now makes use of it on the main...

CVE-2019-9815

CVE-2019-9815 describes a timing-attack similar to Spectre when hyperthreading is not disabled. Affected: macOS content threads (macOS 10.14.5 introduces a sysctl option to disable hyperthreading for untrusted code on the main or worker JavaScript threads), and affected Firefox/Thunderbird versio...

CVE-2019-9815

If hyperthreading is not disabled, a timing attack vulnerability exists, similar to previous Spectre attacks. Apple has shipped macOS 10.14.5 with an option to disable hyperthreading in applications running untrusted code in a thread through a new sysctl. Firefox now makes use of it on the main...

CVE-2019-9815

If hyperthreading is not disabled, a timing attack vulnerability exists, similar to previous Spectre attacks. Apple has shipped macOS 10.14.5 with an option to disable hyperthreading in applications running untrusted code in a thread through a new sysctl. Firefox now makes use of it on the main...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : ucode-intel (SUSE-SU-2019:1910-1) (MDSUM/RIDL) (MFBDS/RIDL/ZombieLoad) (MLPDS/RIDL) (MSBDS/Fallout)

This update for ucode-intel fixes the following issues : This update contains the Intel QSR 2019.1 Microcode release bsc1111331 Four new speculative execution information leak issues have been identified in Intel CPUs. bsc1111331 CVE-2018-12126: Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data Sampling MSBDS...

OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2019-0035) (Spectre)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - scsi: libfc: Fixup discmutex handling in fcoe module Hannes Reinecke Orabug: 29511036 - scsi: libfc: sanitize EDTOV and RATOV setting in fcp Hannes Reinecke Orabug: 29511036 - sysctl: Fix kabi breakag...

PT-2019-4073 · Linux +9 · Linux +9

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Windows affected versions not specified Intel CPUs affected versions not specified AMD CPUs affected versions not specified ARM CPUs affected versions not specified Linux affected versions not specified Description: An information disclosure...

Whonix v15 - Anonymous Operating System

Whonix is an operating system focused on anonymity, privacy and security. It’s based on the Tor anonymity network, Debian GNU/Linux and security by isolation. DNS leaks are impossible, and not even malware with root privileges can find out the user’s real IP. Whonix consists of two parts: One...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : java-1_8_0-openjdk (SUSE-SU-2019:1211-2) (Spectre)

This update for java-180-openjdk to version 8u212 fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : CVE-2019-2602: Better String parsing bsc1132728. CVE-2019-2684: More dynamic RMI interactions bsc1132732. CVE-2019-2698: Fuzzing TrueType fonts - setCurrGlyphID bsc1132729. CVE-2018-3639: fix...

Security Bulletin: IBM PureApplication Service/Systems, which includes IBM OS Images for Red Hat Linux Systems, as well as AIX-based and Windows-based deployments, has released a fix in response to the vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown.

Summary IBM has released the following fix Version 2.2.5.0 for IBM PureApplication Service/Systems, which includes IBM OS Images for Red Hat Linux Systems, as well as AIX-based and Windows-based deployments, in response to CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715 and CVE-2017-5754. Additionally IBM...