SUSE-SU-2018:0041-1 Security update for kernel-firmware

This update for kernel-firmware fixes the following issues: - Add microcodeamdfam17h.bin bsc1068032 CVE-2017-5715 This new firmware enables the Indirect Branch Control IBC feature on AMD family 17h processor to mitigate an attack on the branch predictor that could lead to information disclosure...

(RHSA-2018:0040) 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...

[ASA-201701-35] linux-lts: privilege escalation

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201701-35 ========================================== Severity: Medium Date : 2017-01-27 CVE-ID : CVE-2017-2583 Package : linux-lts Type : privilege escalation Remote : No Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-150 Summary ======= The package linux-lts before...

[ASA-201701-32] linux: privilege escalation

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201701-32 ========================================== Severity: Medium Date : 2017-01-27 CVE-ID : CVE-2017-2583 Package : linux Type : privilege escalation Remote : No Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-149 Summary ======= The package linux before version...

USN-2842-2 linux-lts-vivid vulnerabilities

Jan Beulich discovered that the KVM svm hypervisor implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly catch Debug exceptions on AMD processors. An attacker in a guest virtual machine could use this to cause a denial of service system crash in the host OS. CVE-2015-8104 郭永刚 discovered that the pp...