libvirt security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2019:1180 An update for libvirt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. 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...

RHEL 6 : libvirt (RHSA-2019:1194)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1194 advisory. The libvirt library contains a C API for managing and interacting with the virtualization capabilities of Linux and other operating systems...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2019:1196)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1196 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: A flaw was found in the implementation...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2019:1193)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1193 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: A flaw was found in the implementation...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Advanced 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...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: virt:rhel security update

An update for the virt:rhel module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. 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...

SUSE-SU-2019:1248-1 Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes the following issues: Four new speculative execution information leak issues have been identified in Intel CPUs. bsc1111331 - CVE-2018-12126: Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data Sampling MSBDS - CVE-2018-12127: Microarchitectural Fill Buffer Data Sampling MFBDS -...

SUSE-SU-2019:14048-1 Security update for microcode_ctl

This update for microcodectl fixes the following issues: This update contains the Intel QSR 2019.1 Microcode release bsc1111331 Four new speculative execution information leak issues have been identified in Intel CPUs. bsc1111331 - CVE-2018-12126: Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data Sampling MSB...

SUSE-SU-2019:1235-1 Security update for ucode-intel

This update for ucode-intel fixes the following issues: This update contains the Intel QSR 2019.1 Microcode release bsc1111331 Four new speculative execution information leak issues have been identified in Intel CPUs. bsc1111331 - CVE-2018-12126: Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data Sampling MSBD...

libvirt security update

0.10.2-64.0.1 - Replace docs/et.png in tarball with blank image 0.10.2-64.el610.1 - cpux86: Do not cache microcode version CVE-2018-12126, CVE-2018-12130, CVE-2018-12127 - cpumap: Define md-clear CPUID bit CVE-2018-12126, CVE-2018-12130, CVE-2018-12127...

RHEL 8 : virt:rhel (RHSA-2019:1175)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1175 advisory. Kernel-based Virtual Machine KVM offers a full virtualization solution for Linux on numerous hardware platforms. The virt:rhel module contai...

Spectre, Google, and the Universal Read Gadget

Spectre, a seemingly never ending menace to processors, is back in the limelight once again thanks to the Universal Read Gadget. First seen at the start of 2018, Spectre emerged alongside Meltdown as a major potential threat to people’s system security. Meltdown and Spectre Meltdown targeted Inte...

The x86 Processor Fuzzer: sandsifter

Your computer is not yours. You may have shelled out thousands of dollars for it. It may be sitting right there on your desk. You may have carved your name deep into its side with a blowtorch and chisel. But it’s still not yours. Some vendors are building secret processor registers into your...

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...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

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...

kernel security update

kernel 2.6.18-419.0.0.0.12 - x86 mm/dumppagetables: Add a checkl1tf debugfs file Chris von Recklinghausen 1593378 CVE-2018-3620 - x86 cpu: Make flushl1d visible in /proc/cpuinfo Chris von Recklinghausen 1593378 - x86 cpufeatures: Add detection of L1D cache flush support. Chris von Recklinghausen...

[slackware-security] Slackware 14.2 kernel

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 14.2 to mitigate security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/linux-4.4.153/: Upgraded. This kernel update enables mitigations for L1 Terminal Fault aka Foreshadow and Foreshadow-NG vulnerabilities. Thank...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-754.3.5.OL6 - Update genkey bug 25599697 2.6.32-754.3.5 - kernel cpu/hotplug: Enable 'nosmt' as late as possible Frantisek Hrbata 1593376 CVE-2018-3620 2.6.32-754.3.4 - x86 x86/mm: Simplify pg4umdpage macros Josh Poimboeuf 1593376 CVE-2018-3620 - x86 x86/mm: Fix regression with huge pages ...

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...

Two New Spectre-Class CPU Flaws Discovered—Intel Pays $100K Bounty

Intel has paid out a $100,000 bug bounty for new processor vulnerabilities that are related to Spectre variant one CVE-2017-5753. The new Spectre-class variants are tracked as Spectre 1.1 CVE-2018-3693 and Spectre 1.2, of which Spectre 1.1 described as a bounds-check bypass store attack has been...