Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2019-4531)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2019-4531 advisory. - x86/bugs: Fix the AMD SSBD usage of the SPECCTRL MSR Tom Lendacky Orabug: 28870524 CVE-2018-3639 - x86/bugs: Add AMD's SPECCTRL MSR usage Konrad...

Security Bulletin: IBM QRadar SIEM is vulnerable to 3RD PARTY CPU hardware utilizing speculative execution cache timing side-channel analysis known as Variant 4 or SpectreNG (CVE-2018-3639, CVE-2018-3640)

Summary Speculative execution is a technique used by many modern processors to improve performance by predicting which instructions may be executed based on past execution history. An attacker with local user access may be able to utilize sequences of speculative execution to perform a cache timi...

Security Bulletin: IBM QRadar Network Packet Capture is vulnerable to 3RD PARTY CPU hardware utilizing speculative execution cache timing side-channel analysis known as Variant 4 or SpectreNG (CVE-2018-3639, CVE-2018-3640)

Summary Speculative execution is a technique used by many modern processors to improve performance by predicting which instructions may be executed based on past execution history. An attacker with local user access may be able to utilize sequences of speculative execution to perform a cache timi...

Security Bulletin: a CPU hardware utilizing speculative execution may be vulnerable to cache timing side-channel analysis known as Variant 4 or SpectreNG vulnerability affects IBM

Summary IBM Security Guardium has addressed the following vulnerability. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-3639 DESCRIPTION: Multiple Intel CPU''s could allow a local attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by utilizing sequences of speculative execution and speculative execution of...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:1377-2) (Spectre)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bug was fixed : CVE-2018-3639: Information leaks using 'Memory Disambiguation' feature in modern CPUs were mitigated, aka 'Spectre Variant 4' bnc1087082. A new boot commandlin...

SUSE-SU-2018:1377-2 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bug was fixed: - CVE-2018-3639: Information leaks using 'Memory Disambiguation' feature in modern CPUs were mitigated, aka 'Spectre Variant 4' bnc1087082. A new boot commandli...

USN-3777-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Jann Horn discovered that the vmacache subsystem did not properly handle sequence number overflows, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or execute arbitrary code. CVE-2018-17182 It was discovered that the...

Speculative Execution Side Channel Vulnerability Variants - Lenovo Support US

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Speculative Execution Side Channel Variants 4 and 3a - US

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-22133 Potential Impact: Malicious code running locally may be able to observe contents of privileged memory or registers, circumventing expected privilege levels Severity: Medium Scope of Impact: Industry-wide CVE Identifier: CVE-2018-3639, CVE-2018-3640 Summary...

USN-3756-1: Intel Microcode vulnerabilities | Cloud Foundry

Severity High Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 14.04 Canonical Ubuntu 16.04 Description It was discovered that memory present in the L1 data cache of an Intel CPU core may be exposed to a malicious process that is executing on the CPU core. This vulnerability is also kno...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3756-1)

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...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Intel Microcode vulnerabilities (USN-3756-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3756-1 advisory. It was discovered that memory present in the L1 data cache of an Intel CPU core may be exposed to a malicious process that is...

USN-3756-1: Intel Microcode vulnerabilities

It was discovered that memory present in the L1 data cache of an Intel CPU core may be exposed to a malicious process that is executing on the CPU core. This vulnerability is also known as L1 Terminal Fault L1TF. A local attacker in a guest virtual machine could use this to expose sensitive...

Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Manager is affected by the vulnerabilities known as SpectreNG (CVE-2018-3639)

Summary A third party CPU hardware utilizing speculative execution may be vulnerable to cache timing side-channel analysis known as Variant 4 or SpectreNG. These vulnerabilities have been referred to as part of "SpectreNG" in the media, given their similarity to previously disclosed...

[slackware-security] Slackware 14.2 kernel

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 14.2 to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/linux-4.4.144/: Upgraded. This kernel update enables additional mitigations for spectrev2 IBPB and IBRSFW. It also enables reporting on the...

Chrome Now Features Site Isolation to Defend Against Spectre

Google introduced new security mitigations for its Chrome browser to defend against recently discovered Spectre variants. The new security feature, called site isolation, essentially isolates different browser work processes between various browser tabs. That means one tab’s webpage rendering and...

Fresh Spectre Variants Come to Light

Two new speculative execution bugs have earned researchers a $100,000 bug bounty from Intel. MIT’s Vladimir Kiriansky and independent researcher Carl Waldspurger uncovered what they call Spectre1.1 and a subset, Spectre1.2, collectively referred to as Variant 4 of Spectre by Intel and ARM. Like t...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2018:1699-1) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

This update for xen fixes several issues. This feature was added : - Added support for qemu monitor command These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2018-3639: Prevent attackers with local user access from extracting information via a side-channel analysis, aka Speculative Store Bypass SSB, Varia...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2018:1658-1) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2018-3639: Prevent attackers with local user access from extracting information via a side-channel analysis, aka Speculative Store Bypass SSB, Variant 4 bsc1092631. - CVE-2017-5753,CVE-2017-5715,CVE-2017-5754:...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2018:1603-1) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2018-3639: Prevent attackers with local user access from extracting information via a side-channel analysis, aka Speculative Store Bypass SSB, Variant 4 bsc1092631. - CVE-2017-5753,CVE-2017-5715,CVE-2017-5754:...