Google Enables 'Site Isolation' Feature By Default For Chrome Desktop Users

Google has by default enabled a security feature called "Site Isolation" in its web browser with the release of Chrome 67 for all desktop users to help them protect against many online threats, including Spectre and Meltdown attack. Site Isolation is a feature of the Google Chrome web browser tha...

Google Enables 'Site Isolation' Feature By Default For Chrome Desktop Users

Google has by default enabled a security feature called "Site Isolation" in its web browser with the release of Chrome 67 for all desktop users to help them protect against many online threats, including Spectre and Meltdown attack. Site Isolation is a feature of the Google Chrome web browser tha...

SUSE-SU-2018:1935-1 Recommended update for ucode-intel

The Intel CPU microcode bundle was updated to the 20180703 release. For the listed CPU chipsets this fixes CVE-2018-3640 Spectre v3a and helps mitigating CVE-2018-3639 Spectre v4 bsc1100147 bsc1087082 bsc1087083. More information on:...

OracleVM 3.4 : qemu-kvm (OVMSA-2018-0238) (Spectre)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - qemu-kvm-i386-define-the-ssbd-CPUID-feature-bit-CVE-2018 -3639.patch - qemu-kvm-i386-Define-the-Virt-SSBD-MSR-and-handling-of-i t-CVE.patch - qemu-kvm-i386-define-the-AMD-virt-ssbd-CPUID-feature-bit...

SUSE-SU-2018:1926-1 Security update for ucode-intel

This update for ucode-intel fixes the following issues: The microcode bundles was updated to the 20180703 release For the listed CPU chipsets this fixes CVE-2018-3640 Spectre v3a and helps mitigating CVE-2018-3639 Spectre v4 bsc1100147 bsc1087082 bsc1087083. More information on:...

Two New Spectre-Class CPU Flaws Discovered—Intel Pays $100K Bounty

Intel has paid out a $100,000 bug bounty for new processor vulnerabilities that are related to Spectre variant one CVE-2017-5753. The new Spectre-class variants are tracked as Spectre 1.1 CVE-2018-3693 and Spectre 1.2, of which Spectre 1.1 described as a bounds-check bypass store attack has been...

Two New Spectre-Class CPU Flaws Discovered—Intel Pays $100K Bounty

Intel has paid out a $100,000 bug bounty for new processor vulnerabilities that are related to Spectre variant one CVE-2017-5753. The new Spectre-class variants are tracked as Spectre 1.1 CVE-2018-3693 and Spectre 1.2, of which Spectre 1.1 described as a bounds-check bypass store attack has been...

Scientific Linux Security Update : qemu-kvm on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20180710) (Spectre)

Security Fixes : - An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of Load & Store instructions a commonly used performance optimization. It relies on the presence of a precisely-defined instruction sequence in the privileged...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20180710) (Spectre)

Security Fixes : - An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of Load & Store instructions a commonly used performance optimization. It relies on the presence of a precisely-defined instruction sequence in the privileged...

Oracle Linux 6 : qemu-kvm (ELSA-2018-2162)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2018-2162 advisory. - qemu-kvm-i386-define-the-ssbd-CPUID-feature-bit-CVE-2018-3639.patch bz1574074 - Resolves: bz1574074 CVE-2018-3639 qemu-kvm: hw: cpu: speculative stor...

July 10, 2018—KB4338820 (Security-only update)

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July 10, 2018—KB4338830 (Monthly Rollup)

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openSUSE Security Update : ucode-intel (openSUSE-2018-700) (Spectre)

This update for ucode-intel fixes the following issues : The microcode bundles was updated to the 20180703 release For the listed CPU chipsets this fixes CVE-2018-3640 Spectre v3a and helps mitigating CVE-2018-3639 Spectre v4 bsc1100147 bsc1087082 bsc1087083. More information on:...

Fedora 27 : 2:qemu (2018-9f02e5ed7b) (Spectre)

Add new CPU features for CVE-2017-5715 and CVE-2018-3639 On Intel x86 hosts, the 'ssbd' feature must be explicitly added to any virtual machines that are not using host-passthrough/host-model CPU setup. NB this requires new microcode too, which is not yet available in Fedora microcodectl RPMs. On...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for ucode-intel (openSUSE-SU-2018:1904-1)

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...

Security update for ucode-intel (important)

This update for ucode-intel fixes the following issues: The microcode bundles was updated to the 20180703 release For the listed CPU chipsets this fixes CVE-2018-3640 Spectre v3a and helps mitigating CVE-2018-3639 Spectre v4 bsc1100147 bsc1087082 bsc1087083. More information on:...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3690-2)

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...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : AMD Microcode regression (USN-3690-2)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3690-2 advisory. USN-3690-1 provided updated microcode for AMD processors to address CVE-2017-5715 aka Spectre. Unfortunately, the update caused some systems to fail to boot. This...

USN-3690-2: AMD Microcode regression

USN-3690-1 provided updated microcode for AMD processors to address CVE-2017-5715 aka Spectre. Unfortunately, the update caused some systems to fail to boot. This update reverts the update for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Jann Horn discovered th...

USN-3690-2 amd64-microcode regression

USN-3690-1 provided updated microcode for AMD processors to address CVE-2017-5715 aka Spectre. Unfortunately, the update caused some systems to fail to boot. This update reverts the update for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Jann Horn discovered th...