MIT Researchers Discover New Flaw in Apple M1 CPUs That Can't Be Patched

A novel hardware attack dubbed PACMAN has been demonstrated against Apple's M1 processor chipsets, potentially arming a malicious actor with the capability to gain arbitrary code execution on macOS systems. It leverages "speculative execution attacks to bypass an important memory protection...

Amazon Linux 2 : kernel, --advisory ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2022-023 (ALASKERNEL-5.4-2022-023)

The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.4.181-99.354. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2022-023 advisory. AMD recommends using a software mitigation for this issue, which the kernel is enabling by default. The Lin...

AMD CPUs Denial of Service Vulnerability

AMD CPUs are a family of CPUs from AMD U.S.A. A denial of service vulnerability exists in AMD CPUs, which stems from insufficient boundary checking in the SMU mailbox registers. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability to read content outside of the SRAM address range resulting in a potential...

CVE-2021-0190

Uncaught exception in the BIOS firmware for some IntelR Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable aescalation of privilege via local access...

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-5418-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5418-1 advisory. Ke Sun, Alyssa Milburn, Henrique Kawakami, Emma Benoit, Igor Chervatyuk, Lisa Aichele, and Thais Moreira Hamasaki discovered that the Spectre...

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-5417-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5417-1 advisory. Ke Sun, Alyssa Milburn, Henrique Kawakami, Emma Benoit, Igor Chervatyuk, Lisa Aichele, and Thais Moreira Hamasaki discovered that the Spectre Variant 2...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-5415-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5415-1 advisory. Jeremy Cline discovered a use-after-free in the nouveau graphics driver of the Linux kernel during device removal. A privileged or physically...

CVE-2021-46744

An attacker with access to a malicious hypervisor may be able to infer data values used in a SEV guest on AMD CPUs by monitoring ciphertext values over time...

Design/Logic Flaw

An attacker with access to a malicious hypervisor may be able to infer data values used in a SEV guest on AMD CPUs by monitoring ciphertext values over time...

CVE-2021-46744

Technical details about CVE-2021-46744 are not publicly provided in the supplied Connected documents. The initial entry mentions a SEV data-inference risk on AMD SEV guests, but no product/version/root-cause/fix is given here. Monitor for updates.

CVE-2021-46744

An attacker with access to a malicious hypervisor may be able to infer data values used in a SEV guest on AMD CPUs by monitoring ciphertext values over time...

Release of Technical Report into the AMD Security Processor

Posted by James Forshaw, Google Project Zero Today, members of Project Zero and the Google Cloud security team are releasing a technical report on a security review of AMD Secure Processor ASP. The ASP is an isolated ARM processor in AMD EPYC CPUs that adds a root of trust and controls secure...

Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALASKERNEL-5.4-2022-002)

The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 5.4.110-54.182. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2022-002 advisory. 2024-09-12: CVE-2021-4442 was added to this advisory. An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel...

SUSE SLES15 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2022:1300-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLESSAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:1300-1 advisory. - LFENCE/JMP mitigation V2-2 may not sufficiently mitigate CVE-2017-5715 on some AMD CPUs. CVE-2021-26401 - Non-transparent sharing...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2022:1285-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLESSAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:1285-1 advisory. - LFENCE/JMP mitigation V2-2 may not sufficiently mitigate CVE-2017-5715 on some AMD CPUs. CVE-2021-26401 - Non-transparent sharing...

CVE-2021-40368

A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC S7-400 CPU 412-1 DP V7 All versions, SIMATIC S7-400 CPU 412-2 DP V7 All versions, SIMATIC S7-400 CPU 412-2 PN/DP V7 All versions V7.0.3, SIMATIC S7-400 CPU 414-2 DP V7 All versions, SIMATIC S7-400 CPU 414-3 DP V7 All versions, SIMATIC S7-400 CPU 414-...

Oracle Linux 7 / 8 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel-container (ELSA-2022-9274)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 / 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2022-9274 advisory. - KVM: x86/mmu: do compare-and-exchange of gPTE via the user address Paolo Bonzini Orabug: 34053807 CVE-2022-1158 - netfilter: nftables: initialize...

Citrix Hypervisor Security Update

A security issue has been identified that affects Citrix Hypervisor. This issue may allow privileged code in a guest VM to cause the host to crash or become unresponsive. The issue only affects systems with Intel CPUs where the malicious guest VM has had a physical PCI device assigned to it by th...

CVE-2021-32982 Automation Direct CLICK PLC CPU Modules Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

Automation Direct CLICK PLC CPU Modules: C0-1x CPUs with firmware prior to v3.00 passwords are sent as plaintext during unlocking and project transfers. An attacker who has network visibility can observe the password exchange...

CVE-2022-25159

Authentication Bypass by Capture-replay vulnerability in Mitsubishi Electric MELSEC iQ-F series FX5UC CPU all versions, Mitsubishi Electric MELSEC iQ-F series FX5UJ CPU all versions, Mitsubishi Electric MELSEC iQ-R series R00/01/02CPU all versions, Mitsubishi Electric MELSEC iQ-R series...