Updated gcc packages fix security vulnerability

This update provides and update to 5.5.0 maintenance release and adds support for retpoline, a mitigation technique for CVE-2017-5715 branch target injection aka 'Spectre Variant 2' that is needed at least for the kernels...

Intel Releases New Spectre Patch Update for Skylake Processors

After leaving million of devices at risk of hacking and then rolling out broken patches, Intel has now released a new batch of security patches only for its Skylake processors to address one of the Spectre vulnerabilities Variant 2. For those unaware, Spectre Variant 1, Variant 2 and Meltdown...

[slackware-security] Slackware 14.2 kernel

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 14.2 to mitigate the speculative side channel attack known as Spectre variant 2. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/linux-4.4.115/: Upgraded. This kernel includes full retpoline mitigation for the Spectre varian...

Slackware 14.2 : Slackware 14.2 kernel (SSA:2018-037-01) (Spectre)

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 14.2 to mitigate the speculative side channel attack known as Spectre variant 2. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2018-037-01. The text itself is...

MGASA-2018-0106 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.16 and fixes several security issues. The most important fixes in this update is for the security issue named "Spectre, variant 2 CVE-2017-5715" that is partly mitigated by enabling retpoline support. For full retpoline mitigation, kernel needs to ...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.16 and fixes several security issues. The most important fixes in this update is for the security issue named "Spectre, variant 2 CVE-2017-5715" that is partly mitigated by enabling retpoline support. For full retpoline mitigation, kernel needs to ...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.4.114 and fixes several security issues. The most important fixes in this update is for the security issue named "Spectre, variant 2 CVE-2017-5715" that is partly mitigated by enabling retpoline support. For full retpoline mitigation, kernel needs to ...

MGASA-2018-0107 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.4.114 and fixes several security issues. The most important fixes in this update is for the security issue named "Spectre, variant 2 CVE-2017-5715" that is partly mitigated by enabling retpoline support. For full retpoline mitigation, kernel needs to ...

Scarab ransomware: new variant changes tactics

The Scarab ransomware was discovered in June 2017. Since then, several variants have been created and discovered in the wild. The most popular or widespread versions were distributed via the Necurs botnet and initially written in Visual C compiled. However, after unpacking, we've found that anoth...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : gcc43 (SUSE-SU-2018:0300-1) (Stack Clash)

This update for gcc43 fixes the following issues: Security issue fixed : - CVE-2017-1000376: Don't request excutable stack from libffi. bnc1045091 New features : - Add support for retpolines to mitigate the Spectre Variant 2 attack. bnc1074621 - Add support for zero-sized VLAs and allocas with...

Spectre Variant 2 (CVE 2017-5715) Branch Target Injection Update Disable (KB4078130)

This host is missing a critical update according to Microsoft KB4078130 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...

SamSam - The Evolution Continues Netting Over $325,000 in 4 Weeks

This post was written by Vitor Ventura Introduction Talos has been working in conjunction with Cisco IR Services on what we believe to be a new variant of the SamSam ransomware. This ransomware has been observed across multiple industries including Government, Healthcare and ICS. These attacks do...

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,...

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,...

MGASA-2018-0071 Updated wireshark packages fix security vulnerabilities

The MRDISC dissector could crash CVE-2017-17997. The IxVeriWave file parser could crash CVE-2018-5334. The WCP dissector could crash CVE-2018-5335. Multiple dissectors could crash CVE-2018-5336. Prior to this release dumpcap enabled the Linux kernel’s BPF JIT compiler via the net.core.bpfjitenabl...

Updated wireshark packages fix security vulnerabilities

The MRDISC dissector could crash CVE-2017-17997. The IxVeriWave file parser could crash CVE-2018-5334. The WCP dissector could crash CVE-2018-5335. Multiple dissectors could crash CVE-2018-5336. Prior to this release dumpcap enabled the Linux kernel’s BPF JIT compiler via the net.core.bpfjitenabl...

Meltdown and Spectre fallout: patching problems persist

Last week, the disclosure by multiple teams from Graz and Pennsylvania University, Rambus, Data61, Cyberus Technology, and Google Project Zero of vulnerabilities under the aliases Meltdown and Spectre rocked the security world, sending vendors scurrying to create patches, if at all possible, and...

Apple Releases Spectre Patches for Safari, macOS and iOS

Apple released iOS 11.2.2 software Monday for iPhones, iPads and iPod touch models that patch for the Spectre vulnerabilities. A macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 supplemental update was also released to bolster Spectre defenses in Apple’s Safari browser and WebKit, the web browser engine used by Safari,...

RedHat Update for microcode_ctl RHSA-2018:0013-01

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...

(RHSA-2018:0039) Important: microcode_ctl security update

The microcodectl packages provide microcode updates for Intel and AMD processors. 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...