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...

Fedora 26 : 2:microcode_ctl (2018-6b319763ab)

Update to upstream 2.1-15. 20180108. Includes fix for Spectre. 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...

RHEL 7 : linux-firmware (RHSA-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...

RedHat Update for linux-firmware RHSA-2018:0094-01

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...

RedHat Update for microcode_ctl RHSA-2018:0093-01

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...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:0114-1) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 LTSS 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...

RHEL 6 / 7 : microcode_ctl (RHSA-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...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:0115-1) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 GA LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. This update adds mitigations for various side channel attacks against modern CPUs that could disclose content of otherwise unreadable memory bnc1068032. - CVE-2017-5753 / 'SpectreAttack': Local...

Meltdown / Spectre Mitigation Is a Work in Progress

Since researchers disclosed the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities on Jan. 3, vendors and IT departments have been consumed trying to figure out how to properly address the potentially devastating effects of these kernel-level bugs. By now, one thing we know for sure is that dealing with the...

(RHSA-2018:0094) Important: linux-firmware security update

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. Historically, Red Hat has provided updated microcode,...

(RHSA-2018:0093) Important: microcode_ctl security update

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 provided updated microcode, developed by our...

SUSE-SU-2018:0114-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 LTSS 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...

SUSE-SU-2018:0113-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

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. -...

[slackware-security] kernel

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 14.0 and 14.2 to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/linux-4.4.111/: Upgraded. This kernel includes mitigations for the Spectre variant 2 and Meltdown speculative side channel attacks. Be sur...

Oracle Critical Patch Update - January 2018

A Critical Patch Update is a collection of patches for multiple security vulnerabilities. Critical Patch Update patches are usually cumulative, but each advisory describes only the security fixes added since the previous Critical Patch Update advisory. Thus, prior Critical Patch Update advisories...

openSUSE Security Update : wireshark (openSUSE-2018-32) (Spectre)

This update for wireshark to version 2.2.12 fixes the following issues : - CVE-2018-5334: IxVeriWave file could crash boo1075737 - CVE-2018-5335: WCP dissector could crash boo1075738 - CVE-2018-5336: Multiple dissector crashes boo1075739 - CVE-2017-17997: MRDISC dissector could crash boo1074171...

Slackware 14.0 / 14.2 / current : kernel (SSA:2018-016-01) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 14.0 and 14.2 to fix security issues. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2018-016-01. The text itself is copyright C Slackware Linux, Inc...

(RHSA-2018:0091) Important: Red Hat CloudForms 4.5 security update

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. CloudForms virtual machines include a copy of the Linux Kernel. Security Fixes: An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructio...

Fedora 27 : 2:microcode_ctl (2018-7e17849364)

Update to upstream 2.1-15. 20180108. Includes fix for Spectre. 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...

Fedora 26 : kernel (2018-e6fe35524d)

The 4.14.13 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. This is also the first update to contain some spectre mitigations. Some patches for variant 1 as well as the initial retpoline build for variant 2. These variant 2 mitigations will improve with further patches,...