Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2018-4011) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

Description of changes: 4.1.12-112.14.11.el7uek - 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 redux Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Orabug: 27369994 -...

Fedora 27 : firefox (2018-276558ff6f)

Update to 57.0.4 - Security fixes to address the Meltdown and Spectre timing attacks - https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/01/03/mitigations -landing-new-class-timing-attack/ - Require new nss 3.34 fixed rhbz1531031 - Disabled ARM on all Fedoras due to rhbz1523912 Note that Tenable Network...

Fedora 27 : webkitgtk4 (2018-0590e4af13) (Spectre)

This update includes improvements to mitigate the effects of Spectre CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5715 : - Disable SharedArrayBuffers from Web API. - Reduce the precision of high resolution time to 1ms. Additional fixes : - Fix API documentation generation with newer gtk-doc. Note that Tenable...

Fedora 27 : kernel (2018-21a7ad920c)

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,...

Updated webkit2 packages fix security vulnerabilities

The webkit2 package has been updated to version 2.18.5, containing Spectre mitigations...

MGASA-2018-0082 Updated webkit2 packages fix security vulnerabilities

The webkit2 package has been updated to version 2.18.5, containing Spectre mitigations...

Real World Crypto 2018 (RWC 2018) brain dump

The 2018 edition of Real World Crypto RWC was in Zurich you can find the conference full program here.. I live in Switzerland so I was extremely happy about it. RWC is basically the best conference I ever attended and it will probably be so for a while. I almost risked to skip it due to flu but I...

Updated microcode packages fix security vulnerabilities

This update provides 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 the Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake, Gemini Lake, Apollo Lake, Crystal Well and I...

MGASA-2018-0077 Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update is based on the upstream 4.14.13 and fixes several security issues. The most important fix in this update is for the security issue named "Meltdown" that is fixed in theese kernels by enabling kernel Page Table Isolation KTPI. Note that according to AMD, this issue does not...

Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update is based on the upstream 4.14.13 and fixes several security issues. The most important fix in this update is for the security issue named "Meltdown" that is fixed in theese kernels by enabling kernel Page Table Isolation KTPI. Note that according to AMD, this issue does not...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.4.111 and fixes several security issues. The most important fix in this update is for the security issue named "Meltdown" that is fixed in theese kernels by enabling kernel Page Table Isolation KTPI. Note that according to AMD, this issue does not...

MGASA-2018-0076 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.13 and fixes several security issues. The most important fix in this update is for the security issue named "Meltdown" that is fixed in theese kernels by enabling kernel Page Table Isolation KPTI. Note that according to AMD, this issue does not...

MGASA-2018-0074 Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update is based on the upstream 4.4.111 and fixes several security issues. The most important fix in this update is for the security issue named "Meltdown" that is fixed in theese kernels by enabling kernel Page Table Isolation KTPI. Note that according to AMD, this issue does not...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.13 and fixes several security issues. The most important fix in this update is for the security issue named "Meltdown" that is fixed in theese kernels by enabling kernel Page Table Isolation KPTI. Note that according to AMD, this issue does not...

Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update is based on the upstream 4.4.111 and fixes several security issues. The most important fix in this update is for the security issue named "Meltdown" that is fixed in theese kernels by enabling kernel Page Table Isolation KTPI. Note that according to AMD, this issue does not...

Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update provides the upstream 4.4.111 and fixes several security issues. The most important fix in this update is for the security issue named "Meltdown" that is fixed in theese kernels by enabling kernel Page Table Isolation KTPI. Note that according to AMD, this issue does not...

MGASA-2018-0073 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.4.111 and fixes several security issues. The most important fix in this update is for the security issue named "Meltdown" that is fixed in theese kernels by enabling kernel Page Table Isolation KTPI. Note that according to AMD, this issue does not...

MGASA-2018-0079 Updated microcode packages fix security vulnerabilities

This update provides 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 the Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake, Gemini Lake, Apollo Lake, Crystal Well and I...

Updated nvidia-current packages mitigates security issues

This update provides version 384.111 from the R384 branch, in order to help mitigate Spectre and Meltdown CPU security issues and keeps the driver working with security hardened kernels. Note that so far, nVidia does believe that their GPUs are immune to the referenced security issues. It also ad...

Fake Spectre and Meltdown patch pushes Smoke Loader malware

The Meltdown and Spectre bugs have generated a lot of media attention, and users have been urged to update their machines with fixes made available by various vendors. While some patches have created more issues than they fixed, we came across a particular one targeted at German users that actual...