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 : chromium (openSUSE-2018-381)

This update for Chromium to version 66.0.3359.117 fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed boo1090000 : - CVE-2018-6085: Use after free in Disk Cache - CVE-2018-6086: Use after free in Disk Cache - CVE-2018-6087: Use after free in WebAssembly - CVE-2018-6088: Use after free in PDFium -...

Security update for chromium (important)

This update for Chromium to version 66.0.3359.117 fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed boo1090000: - CVE-2018-6085: Use after free in Disk Cache - CVE-2018-6086: Use after free in Disk Cache - CVE-2018-6087: Use after free in WebAssembly - CVE-2018-6088: Use after free in PDFium -...

Oracle Solaris Critical Patch Update : apr2018_SRU11_3_31_6_0 (Spectre)

This Solaris system is missing necessary patches to address a critical security update : - Vulnerability in the Oracle Communications LSMS component of Oracle Communications Applications subcomponent: Platform Kernel. Supported versions that are affected are 13.1, 13.2 and 13.3. Difficult to...

The Sky Is Falling! Responding Rationally to Headline Vulnerabilities

It’s happening more and more. Gill Langston, a Qualys Director of Product Management, speaks at RSA Conference 2018 High profile vulnerabilities like Meltdown and Spectre are disclosed, and become headline-grabbing news not just in the technology press, but on general news outlets worldwide. Even...

OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2018-0035) (Dirty COW) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : please see Oracle VM Security Advisory OVMSA-2018-0035 for details. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The package checks in this plugin were extracted from OracleVM Security Advisory OVMSA-2018-0035...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2018:1129)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:1129 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: An industry-wide issue was found in th...

Amazon Linux 2 : linux-firmware (ALAS-2018-962) (Spectre)

Speculative execution branch target injection 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...

Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALAS-2018-939) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

An updated kernel release for Amazon Linux has been made available which prevents speculative execution of indirect branches within the kernel. This release incorporates latest stable open source Linux security improvements to address CVE-2017-5715 within the kernel and builds upon previously...

Amazon Linux 2 : microcode_ctl (ALAS-2018-953) (Spectre)

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 exploited. Variant...

Amazon Linux 2 : qemu-kvm (ALAS-2018-942) (Spectre)

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 exploited. Variant...

Amazon Linux 2 : libvirt (ALAS-2018-952) (Spectre)

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 exploited. Variant...

Stable Channel Update for Desktop

The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 66 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. This will roll out over the coming days/weeks. Chrome 66.0.3359.117 contains a number of fixes and improvements -- a list of changes is available in the log. Watch out for upcomin...

Debian DLA-1349-1 : linux-tools security update

This update doesn't fix a vulnerability in linux-tools, but provides support for building Linux kernel modules with the 'retpoline' mitigation for CVE-2017-5715 Spectre variant 2. This update also includes bug fixes from the upstream Linux 3.2 stable branch up to and including 3.2.101. For Debian...

[SECURITY] [DLA 1349-1] linux-tools security update

Package : linux-tools Version : 3.2.101-1 Debian Bug : 693667 696957 708994 This update doesnt fix a vulnerability in linux-tools, but provides support for building Linux kernel modules with the "retpoline" mitigation for CVE-2017-5715 Spectre variant 2. This update also includes bug fixes from t...

Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-1349-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 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 Update : libvirt (openSUSE-2018-358) (Spectre)

This update for libvirt and virt-manager fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : - CVE-2017-5715: Fixes for speculative side channel attacks aka 'SpectreAttack' var2 bsc1079869. - CVE-2018-6764: Fixed guest executable code injection via libnssdns.so loaded by libvirtlxc before init...

APT Trends report Q1 2018

In the second quarter of 2017, Kaspersky's Global Research and Analysis Team GReAT began publishing summaries of the quarter's private threat intelligence reports in an effort to make the public aware of the research we have been conducting. This report serves as the next installment, focusing on...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : libvirt (SUSE-SU-2018:0920-1) (Spectre)

This update for libvirt and virt-manager fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed : - CVE-2017-5715: Fixes for speculative side channel attacks aka 'SpectreAttack' var2 bsc1079869. - CVE-2018-6764: Fixed guest executable code injection via libnssdns.so loaded by libvirtlxc before init...

AMD Rolls Out Spectre Fixes

AMD said that CPU firmware and Windows 10 patches are now available to safeguard its products against the Spectre security flaw. Mark Papermaster, senior vice president and chief technology officer at AMD, said in a Tuesday post that Spectre fixes are available for AMD customers, who can download...