USN-3540-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities | Cloud Foundry

Severity Critical Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 14.04 Description USN-3540-1 addressed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubunt...

USN-3531-2 intel-microcode regression

USN-3531-1 updated Intel microcode to the 20180108 release. Regressions were discovered in the microcode updates which could cause system instability on certain hardware platforms. At the request of Intel, we have reverted to the previous packaged microcode version, the 20170707 release. Original...

USN-3531-2: Intel Microcode regression

USN-3531-1 updated Intel microcode to the 20180108 release. Regressions were discovered in the microcode updates which could cause system instability on certain hardware platforms. At the request of Intel, we have reverted to the previous packaged microcode version, the 20170707 release. Original...

Lies and More Lies

Following the release of the Spectre and Meltdown CPU attacks, the security community wondered if other researchers would find related speculative attack problems. When the following appeared, we were concerned: "Skyfall and Solace More vulnerabilities in modern computers. Following the recent...

SUSE-SU-2018:0171-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3 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...

Windows システム上の Spectre および Meltdown に対する緩和策のパフォーマンスへの影響について

本記事は、Microsoft Secure ブログ “Understanding the performance impact of Spectre and Meltdown mitigations on Windows Systems”...

Security fix for the ALT Linux 10 package firefox-esr version 52.6.0-alt1

Jan. 22, 2018 Andrey Cherepanov 52.6.0-alt1 - New ESR version 52.6.0 - Fixes: + CVE-2018-5095 Integer overflow in Skia library during edge builder allocation + CVE-2018-5096 Use-after-free while editing form elements + CVE-2018-5097 Use-after-free when source document is manipulated during XSLT +...

Scientific Linux Security Update : microcode_ctl on SL6.x, SL7.x i386/x86_64 (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...

OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2018-0012) (Spectre)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - Revert 'kernel.spec: Require the new microcodectl.' Brian Maly - xen-blkback: add pendingreq allocation stats Ankur Arora Orabug: 27386890 - xen-blkback: move indirect req allocation out-of-line Ankur...

[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 14.2 to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-52.6.0esr-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements. Specifically, this update...

Amazon Linux AMI : 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...

Fedora 26 : webkitgtk4 (2018-690989736a) (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...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:0131-1) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

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. -...

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...

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...

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...

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...