CVE-2018-8931

The AMD Ryzen, Ryzen Pro, and Ryzen Mobile processor chips have insufficient access control for the Secure Processor, aka RYZENFALL-1...

AMD Acknowledges Newly Disclosed Flaws In Its Processors — Patches Coming Soon

AMD has finally acknowledged 13 critical vulnerabilities, and exploitable backdoors in its Ryzen and EPYC processors disclosed earlier this month by Israel-based CTS Labs and promised to roll out firmware patches for millions of affected devices 'in the coming weeks.' According to CTS-Labs...

HPSBHF03581 rev. 4 - AMD Secure Processor and Promontory Chipset Exploits

Potential Security Impact Circumvention of platform security controls, unauthorized access to system memory, installation of difficult to detect malware. Source: CTS Reported By: CTS VULNERABILITY SUMMARY Vulnerability | Description | Impact ---|---|--- MASTERKEY | Attacker who already has...

AMD Acknowledges Vulnerabilities, Will Roll Out Patches In Coming Week

AMD on Tuesday acknowledged several vulnerabilities that had been previously reported in its Ryzen and EPYC chips, and said that it would roll out firmware patches for those flaws in the coming weeks. The response comes a week after Israel-based CTS-Labs said that it has discovered 13 critical...

Israeli Security Attacks AMD by Publishing Zero-Day Exploits

Last week, the Israeli security company CTS Labs published a series of exploits against AMD chips. The publication came with the flashy website, detailed whitepaper, cool vulnerability names -- RYZENFALL, MASTERKEY, FALLOUT, and CHIMERA -- and logos we've come to expect from these sorts of things...

New Microsoft Bug Bounty Program Looks To Squash The Next Spectre, Meltdown

In the wake of the Meltdown and Spectre flaws, Microsoft has rolled out a new bug bounty program targeting speculative execution side channel vulnerabilities. The limited time program is open until December 31, and offers up to $250,000 for identifying new categories of speculative execution...

openSUSE Security Update : kernel-firmware (openSUSE-2018-262)

This update for kernel-firmware fixes the following issues : - CVE-2015-1142857: Add 7.13.1.0 bnx2x firmware files to fix a ethernet flow control vulnerability in SRIOV devices bsc1077355 This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Networ...

Hyperbole Swirls Around AMD Processor Security Threat

Maybe it was the exaggerated threats against AMD’s business or the semi-unprofessional way the threats were brought to light but no matter — security start-up CTS-Labs claims of security holes in the chipmaker’s Ryzen and Epic processor lines are now being lambasted across the security community...

Mitigating speculative execution side channel hardware vulnerabilities

On January 3rd, 2018, Microsoft released an advisory and security updates related to a newly discovered class of hardware vulnerabilities involving speculative execution side channels known as Spectre and Meltdown that affect AMD, ARM, and Intel CPUs to varying degrees. If you haven’t had a chanc...

Mitigating speculative execution side channel hardware vulnerabilities

On January 3rd, 2018, Microsoft released an advisory and security updates related to a newly discovered class of hardware vulnerabilities involving speculative execution side channels known as Spectre and Meltdown that affect AMD, ARM, and Intel CPUs to varying degrees. If you haven’t had a chanc...

13 Critical Flaws Discovered in AMD Ryzen and EPYC Processors

Security researchers claimed to have discovered 13 critical Spectre/Meltdown-like vulnerabilities throughout AMD's Ryzen and EPYC lines of processors that could allow attackers to access sensitive data, install persistent malware inside the chip, and gain full access to the compromised systems. A...

AMD Investigating Reports of 13 Critical Vulnerabilities Found in Ryzen, EPYC Chips

Researchers on Tuesday said they found several critical security vulnerabilities in various AMD chips, allegedly opening them up to attackers who want to steal sensitive data and install malware on AMD servers, workstations and laptops. Israel-based CTS-Labs said that it has discovered 13 critica...

hw: cpu: speculative execution permission faults handling

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...

OracleVM 3.4 : xen (OVMSA-2018-0020) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - BUILDINFO: OVMF commit=173bf5c847e3ca8b42c11796ce048d8e2e916ff8 - BUILDINFO: xen commit=9ccc143584e12027a8db854d19ce8a120d22cfac - BUILDINFO: QEMU upstream...

Intel Issues Updated Spectre Firmware Fixes For Newer Processors

Intel has issued updated microcode to help protect its newer processors from Spectre security exploits. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company’s new microcode updates – which impact its newer chip platforms, such as Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake, and Skylake – have been released to OEM customers and...

Double free

In the Linux kernel before 4.7, the amdgpioremove function in drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-amd.c calls the pinctrlunregister function, leading to a double free...

CVE-2017-18174

In the Linux kernel before 4.7, the amdgpioremove function in drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-amd.c calls the pinctrlunregister function, leading to a double free...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-18174

In the Linux kernel before 4.7, the amdgpioremove function in drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-amd.c calls the pinctrlunregister function, leading to a double free...

Kali Linux 2018.1 Release - The Best Penetration Testing Distribution

Kali Linux 2018.1 the first release of 2018, this fine release contains all updated packages and bug fixes since our 2017.3 release last November. This release wasn’t without its challenges–from the Meltdown and Spectre excitement patches will be in the 4.15 kernel to a couple of other nasty bugs...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2018-4022)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2018-4022 advisory. - x86: Add another set of MSR accessor functions Borislav Petkov Orabug: 27444923 CVE-2017-5753 - userns: prevent speculative execution Elena...