7 New Meltdown and Spectre-type CPU Flaws Affect Intel, AMD, ARM CPUs

Disclosed earlier this year, potentially dangerous Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities that affected a large family of modern processors proven that speculative execution attacks can be exploited in a trivial way to access highly sensitive information. Since then, several more variants of...

November 13, 2018—KB4467700 (Security-only update)

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November 13, 2018—KB4467703 (Security-only update)

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November 13, 2018—KB4467697 (Monthly Rollup)

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openSUSE Security Update : qemu (openSUSE-2018-1364) (Spectre)

This update for qemu fixes the following issues : These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2018-12617: qmpguestfileread had an integer overflow that could have been exploited by sending a crafted QMP command including guest-file-read with a large count value to the agent via the listening socket...

Security update for qemu (moderate)

This update for qemu fixes the following issues: These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2018-12617: qmpguestfileread had an integer overflow that could have been exploited by sending a crafted QMP command including guest-file-read with a large count value to the agent via the listening socket...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

4.14.35-1818.4.5 - x86/intel/spectrev2: Remove unnecessary retpcompiler test Boris Ostrovsky Orabug: 28814574 - x86/intel/spectrev4: Deprecate specstorebypassdisable=userspace Boris Ostrovsky Orabug: 28814574 - x86/speculation: x86specctrlset needs to be called unconditionally Boris Ostrovsky...

Which Threats had the Most Impact During the First Half of 2018?

One of the best ways for organizations to shore up their data security efforts and work toward more proactive protection is by examining trends within the threat environment. Taking a look at the strategies for attack, infiltration and infection currently being utilized by hackers can point towar...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : Side-channel processor vulnerabilities (K91229003)

The following three side-channel attacks were publicly disclosed on January 3, 2018 : CVE-2017-5715 Spectre-BTB previously known as Spectre Variant 2 Branch target injection Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and indirect branch prediction may allow unauthorized disclosu...

GLSA-201810-06 : Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities (Foreshadow) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201810-06 Xen: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Xen. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Impact : A local attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition or disclos...

RHEL 7 : libvirt (RHSA-2018:3398)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:3398 advisory. The libvirt library contains a C API for managing and interacting with the virtualization capabilities of Linux and other operating systems. In...

RHEL 7 : qemu-kvm (RHSA-2018:3423)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:3423 advisory. Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm packages provide the...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : qemu (SUSE-SU-2018:3555-1) (Spectre)

This update for qemu fixes the following issues : These security issues were fixed : CVE-2018-12617: qmpguestfileread had an integer overflow that could have been exploited by sending a crafted QMP command including guest-file-read with a large count value to the agent via the listening socket...

SUSE-SU-2018:3555-1 Security update for qemu

This update for qemu fixes the following issues: These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2018-12617: qmpguestfileread had an integer overflow that could have been exploited by sending a crafted QMP command including guest-file-read with a large count value to the agent via the listening socket...

Security Bulletin: IBM API Connect is affected by Foreshadow Spectre Variant vulnerability (CVE-2018-3646 CVE-2018-3615 CVE-2018-3620)

Summary API Connect has addressed the following vulnerabilities. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-3646 DESCRIPTION: Multiple Intel CPU's could allow a local attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw in the CPU speculative branch instruction execution feature. By conducting...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3531-3)

The remote host is missing an update for the 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...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for qemu (openSUSE-SU-2018:1628-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Reading Privileged Memory with a Side Channel - Lenovo Support US

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Reading Privileged Memory with a Side Channel - US

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-18282 Potential Impact: Malicious code running locally may be able to observe contents of privileged memory, circumventing expected privilege levels. Severity: High Scope of Impact: Industry-wide CVE Identifier: “Spectre” CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715 “Meltdown”...

USN-3777-3 linux-azure vulnerabilities

USN-3777-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 18.04 %LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux kernel for Azure Cloud systems. Jann Horn discovered that the vmacache subsystem did not properly handle sequence number overflows, leading to a use-after-free...