USN-3531-3 intel-microcode update

Jann Horn discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and branch prediction may allow unauthorized memory reads via sidechannel attacks. This flaw is known as Spectre. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information, including kernel memory. CVE-2017-5715 This...

Microsoft's Meltdown Patch Made Windows 7 PCs More Insecure

Meltdown CPU vulnerability was bad, and Microsoft somehow made the flaw even worse on its Windows 7, allowing any unprivileged, user-level application to read content from and even write data to the operating system's kernel memory. For those unaware, Spectre and Meltdown were security flaws...

FreeBSD : webkit2-gtk3 -- multiple vulnerabilities (1ce95bc7-3278-11e8-b527-00012e582166) (Spectre)

The WebKit team reports many vulnerabilities. Please reference the CVE/URL list for details. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database : Copyright 2003-2019 Jacques Vidrine and contributors Redistribution...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : qemu (SUSE-SU-2018:0831-1) (Spectre)

This update for qemu fixes the following issues: This update has the next round of Spectre v2 related patches, which now integrate with corresponding changes in libvirt. CVE-2017-5715 bsc1068032 The January 2018 release of qemu initially addressed the Spectre v2 vulnerability for KVM guests by...

SUSE-SU-2018:0831-1 Security update for qemu

This update for qemu fixes the following issues: This update has the next round of Spectre v2 related patches, which now integrate with corresponding changes in libvirt. CVE-2017-5715 bsc1068032 The January 2018 release of qemu initially addressed the Spectre v2 vulnerability for KVM guests by...

SUSE-RU-2018:0821-1 Recommended update for drbd, drbd-utils

This update for drbd and drbd-utils provides the following fixes: Changes in drbd-utils: - Make sure the full bitmap gets properly propagated in drbdmeta. Also make sure the ID is kept when downgrading from v9 to v8. bsc1037109 - Support passing '--force' to drbdadm dump-md. bsc1077176 - Fix a...

Kernel security update: CVE-2017-18017 and other; new kernel 2.6.32-042stab128.2 for Virtuozzo Containers for Linux 4.7, Server Bare Metal 5.0

This update provides a new Virtuozzo Containers for Linux 4.7 and Server Bare Metal 5.0 kernel 2.6.32-042stab128.2 that is a rebase to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 kernel 2.6.32-696.23.1.el6. This kernel was recompiled by the updated gcc with retpolines support. Retpolines are a technique use...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for qemu (openSUSE-SU-2018:0780-1)

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 qemu (important)

This update for qemu fixes the following issues: This update has the next round of Spectre v2 related patches, which now integrate with corresponding changes in libvirt. CVE-2017-5715 bsc1068032 The January 2018 release of qemu initially addressed the Spectre v2 vulnerability for KVM guests by...

openSUSE Security Update : qemu (openSUSE-2018-291) (Spectre)

This update for qemu fixes the following issues : This update has the next round of Spectre v2 related patches, which now integrate with corresponding changes in libvirt. CVE-2017-5715 bsc1068032 The January 2018 release of qemu initially addressed the Spectre v2 vulnerability for KVM guests by...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : crash (SUSE-SU-2018:0757-1) (Spectre)

This update for crash fixes the following issues : - Exclude openSUSE from RT KMP build bsc1013843 This update also rebuilds the crash kernel module packages with retpoline support to mitigate Spectre Variant 2. bsc1068032 CVE-2017-5715 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the precedi...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : qemu (SUSE-SU-2018:0762-1) (Spectre)

This update for qemu fixes the following issues: This update has the next round of Spectre v2 related patches, which now integrate with corresponding changes in libvirt. CVE-2017-5715 bsc1068032 The January 2018 release of qemu initially addressed the Spectre v2 vulnerability for KVM guests by...

SUSE-SU-2018:0762-1 Security update for qemu

This update for qemu fixes the following issues: This update has the next round of Spectre v2 related patches, which now integrate with corresponding changes in libvirt. CVE-2017-5715 bsc1068032 The January 2018 release of qemu initially addressed the Spectre v2 vulnerability for KVM guests by...

SUSE-SU-2018:0757-1 Security update for crash

This update for crash fixes the following issues: - Exclude openSUSE from RT KMP build bsc1013843 This update also rebuilds the crash kernel module packages with retpoline support to mitigate Spectre Variant 2. bsc1068032 CVE-2017-5715...

Security update for various KMPs (important)

The Spectre Variant 2 in the Linux Kernel is mitigated using "retpolines". This update rebuilds all openSUSE Leap 42.3 KMPs to use "retpolines" and so be able to mitigate the Spectre v2 attack. bsc1068032 CVE-2017-5715...

openSUSE Security Update : various KMPs (openSUSE-2018-284) (Spectre)

The Spectre Variant 2 in the Linux Kernel is mitigated using 'retpolines'. This update rebuilds all openSUSE Leap 42.3 KMPs to use 'retpolines' and so be able to mitigate the Spectre v2 attack. bsc1068032 CVE-2017-5715 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for various KMPs (openSUSE-SU-2018:0745-1)

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...

A week in security (March 12 – March 18)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we took a look at the inner workings of a fileless attack, explored what happened in a zero day ransomware attack aimed at South Koreans, gave you hints and tips for avoiding cold calls, and took a deep dive into the secretive world of GrayKey. Other news The Equif...

MGASA-2018-0176 Updated microcode packages fix security vulnerabilities

This update provides new microcode fixes and mitigations for Spectre CVE-2017-5715 for many Intel CPUs produced in the last 5 years. So far the Intel microcode updates are for several processors from many of Intel Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake, Gemini Lake, Apollo Lake,...

MGASA-2018-0172 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.25 and updates the KPTI mitigation for Meltdown CVE-2017-5754 on 32bit x86. It also adds ome optimizations and improvements to mitigate some of the slowdons caused by the Meltdown CVE-2017-5754 and Spectre, variant 2 CVE-2017-5715. Other security...