Processor Vulnerabilities – Meltdown and Spectre

UPDATE 1/4/2018: Qualys has released several QIDs for detecting missing patches for these vulnerabilities. UPDATE 1/5/2018: Pre-built AssetView dashboards to visualize impact and remediation progress. Vulnerabilities potentially impacting all major processor vendors were disclosed today by Google...

Multiple CPUs - Spectre Information Disclosure (PoC) Exploit

Exploit for multiple platform in category local exploits include include include ifdef MSCVER include / for rdtscp and clflush / pragma optimize"gt",on else include / for rdtscp and clflush / endif / Victim code. / unsigned int array1size = 16; uint8t unused164; uint8t array1160 =...

RHEL 7 : microcode_ctl (RHSA-2018:0012) (Spectre)

An update for microcodectl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2018:0020)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:0020 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: An industry-wide issue was found in th...

VMSA-2018-0002 : VMware ESXi, Workstation and Fusion updates address side-channel analysis due to speculative execution. (Spectre)

Bounds Check bypass and Branch Target Injection issues CPU data cache timing can be abused to efficiently leak information out of mis-speculated CPU execution, leading to at worst arbitrary virtual memory read vulnerabilities across local security boundaries in various contexts. Speculative...

Information about Meltdown and Spectre findings

Palo Alto Networks is aware of recent vulnerability disclosures, known as Meltdown and Spectre, that affect modern CPU architectures. At this time, our findings show that these vulnerabilities pose no increased risk to Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS devices. CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5753, and...

CentOS 7 : microcode_ctl (CESA-2018:0012) (Spectre)

An update for microcodectl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : qemu (SUSE-SU-2018:0007-1) (Spectre)

This update for qemu fixes the following issues: A new feature was added : - Support EPYC vCPU type bsc1052825 fate324038 Also a mitigation for a security problem has been applied : - CVE-2017-5715: QEMU was updated to allow passing through new MSR and CPUID flags from the host VM to the CPU, to...

KB4056893: Windows 10 LTSB January 2018 Security Update (Meltdown)(Spectre)

The remote Windows host is missing security update 4056893 or 4075199. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - An vulnerability exists within microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and indirect branch prediction, which may allow an attacker with local user access to...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2018:0011) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20180103) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

Security Fixes : 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...

RHEL 7 : qemu-kvm (RHSA-2018:0027)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:0027 advisory. Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm package provides the...

RHEL 7 : libvirt (RHSA-2018:0032) (Spectre)

An update for libvirt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Telco Extended Update Support, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impa...

RHEL 7 : qemu-kvm (RHSA-2018:0023)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:0023 advisory. Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm package provides the...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2018:0007) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:0011-1) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 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: Local attackers on systems with...

Scientific Linux Security Update : microcode_ctl on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20180103) (Spectre)

Security Fixes : - 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...

KB4056898: Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 January 2018 Security Update (Meltdown)(Spectre)

The remote Windows host is missing security update 4056898 or cumulative update 4056895. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - An vulnerability exists within microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and indirect branch prediction, which may allow an attacker with local...

KB4056892: Windows 10 Version 1709 and Windows Server Version 1709 January 2018 Security Update (Meltdown)(Spectre)

The remote Windows host is missing security update 4056892 or 4073291. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - An vulnerability exists within microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and indirect branch prediction, which may allow an attacker with local user access to...

CVE-2017-5715

Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and indirect branch prediction may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis. Recent assessments: pwsh at March 03, 2021 3:34pm UTC reported: I am submitting this...