Meltdown and Spectre Aren’t Business as Usual

The new year brought a new vulnerability type — the CPU-based Meltdown and Spectre bugs — that’s forcing vendors and IT departments to modify long-standing ways of identifying threats, prioritizing remediation, managing patches and evaluating risk. “Meltdown and Spectre are different...

Intel Says Firmware Fixes for Spectre and Meltdown Affecting Newer Chips

Intel’s efforts to issue fixes for the Spectre and Meltdown CPU vulnerabilities are still hitting some bumps in the road, a company executive said in a blog post. “We have now issued firmware updates for 90 percent of Intel CPUs introduced in the past five years, but we have more work to do,” sai...

SUSE-SU-2018:0131-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. This update is only provided as a fix update for IBM Z platform. - CVE-2017-5753 / 'Spectre Attack': IBM Z fixes were included but not enabled in the previous update. This update enables those fixes. -...

Beers with Talos EP20: Crypto, Vuln Disco, and the Spectre Meltdown

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast Episode 20 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing: www.talosintelligence.com/podcast EP20 Show Notes: This is easily our best podcast of 2018 so far. The crew discusses the recent spike in...

CentOS 6 / 7 : microcode_ctl (CESA-2018:0093) (Spectre)

An update for microcodectl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Advanced Update Support, Red H...

CentOS Update for microcode_ctl CESA-2018:0093 centos7

Check the version of microcodectl 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 scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882828";...

CentOS 7 : linux-firmware (CESA-2018:0094) (Spectre)

An update for linux-firmware is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Telco Extended Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Extended...

OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2018-0010) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - x86/pti/efi: broken conversion from efi to kernel page table Pavel Tatashin Orabug: 27363926 Orabug: 27352353 CVE-2017-5754 - x86/spec: Always set IBRS to guest value on VMENTER and host on VMEXIT red...

OracleVM 3.4 : microcode_ctl (OVMSA-2018-0011) (Spectre)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - Enable early microcode load to allow updating Broadwell model 79 - Make sure 'modprobe microcode' is not executed on Broadwell model 79 - Run dracut upon microcode update - Add updated Intel 20180108...

Fedora 27 : icecat (2018-16a76da6cc)

Update to 52.5.3 - Patched for mozilla bug-1427870 spectre mitigation Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing...

CentOS Update for iwl1000-firmware CESA-2018:0094 centos7

Check the version of iwl1000-firmware 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 scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882829";...

Scientific Linux Security Update : linux-firmware on SL7.x (noarch) (20180116) (Spectre)

This update supersedes the previous microcode update provided with the CVE-2017-5715 Spectre CPU branch injection vulnerability mitigation. Further testing has uncovered problems with the microcode provided along with the Spectre mitigation that could lead to system instabilities. As a result, th...

Fedora 26 : icecat (2018-e1539d9bc6)

Update to 52.5.3 - Patched for mozilla bug-1427870 spectre mitigation Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : microcode_ctl (ELSA-2018-0093) (Spectre)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2018:0093 : An update for microcodectl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterpri...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:0113-1) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. This update is only provided as a fix update for IBM Z platform. - CVE-2017-5753 / 'Spectre Attack': IBM Z fixes were included but not enabled in the previous update. This update enables those fixes. -...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

4.1.12-112.14.13 - Revert 'kernel.spec: Require the new microcodectl.' Brian Maly 4.1.12-112.14.12 - xen-blkback: add pendingreq allocation stats Ankur Arora Orabug: 27386890 - xen-blkback: move indirect req allocation out-of-line Ankur Arora Orabug: 27386890 - xen-blkback: pull nseg validation o...

CentOS Update for microcode_ctl CESA-2018:0093 centos6

Check the version of microcodectl 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 scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882827";...

Exploit for Observable Discrepancy in Intel Atom_C

CiscoSpectreTakeover A PoC chain exploit using the recent...

iwl100, iwl1000, iwl105, iwl135, iwl2000, iwl2030, iwl3160, iwl3945, iwl4965, iwl5000, iwl5150, iwl6000, iwl6000g2a, iwl6000g2b, iwl6050, iwl7260, iwl7265, linux security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2018:0094 The linux-firmware packages contain all of the firmware files that are required by various devices to operate. This update supersedes microcode provided by Red Hat with the CVE-2017-5715 “Spectre” CPU branch injection vulnerability mitigation...

microcode_ctl security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2018:0093 The microcodectl packages provide microcode updates for Intel and AMD processors. This update supersedes microcode provided by Red Hat with the CVE-2017-5715 “Spectre” CPU branch injection vulnerability mitigation. Historically, Red Hat has...