Fedora 27 : linux-firmware (2018-41af2a8d65)

Microcode update for AMD cpus Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 ...

Updated microcode packages fix security vulnerabilities

This update provides microcode fixes and mitigations for Spectre CVE-2017-5715 for many Intel CPUs produced in the last 5 years. So far the Intel microcode updates are for several processors from the Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake, Gemini Lake, Apollo Lake, Crystal Well and I...

MGASA-2018-0079 Updated microcode packages fix security vulnerabilities

This update provides microcode fixes and mitigations for Spectre CVE-2017-5715 for many Intel CPUs produced in the last 5 years. So far the Intel microcode updates are for several processors from the Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake, Gemini Lake, Apollo Lake, Crystal Well and I...

Fedora 26 : linux-firmware (2018-c4670f2981)

Microcode update for AMD cpus Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 ...

Multiple CPUs - Information Leak Using Speculative Execution Exploit

Exploit for hardware platform in category dos / poc == INTRODUCTION == This is a bug report about a CPU security issue that affects processors by Intel, AMD and to some extent ARM. I have written a PoC for this issue that, when executed in userspace on an Intel Xeon CPU E5-1650 v3 machine with a...

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,...

FreeBSD : mozilla -- Speculative execution side-channel attack (8429711b-76ca-474e-94a0-6b980f1e2d47)

Mozilla Foundation reports : Jann Horn of Google Project Zero Security reported that speculative execution performed by modern CPUs could leak information through a timing side-channel attack. Microsoft Vulnerability Research extended this attack to browser JavaScript engines and demonstrated tha...

Fedora 26 : dracut (2018-9bcc7b0b70)

Adds support for early microcode for AMD CPUs family = 0x17. Note: Intel CPU support is fine. To add the microcode to all your initramfs images: dracut --regenerate-all --force To only add it to the current kernel version: dracut --force Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the...

Meltdown and Spectre Flaws Collateral Damage to OS & Cloud Services Unavoidable

By Waqas Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities haunting users and Tech Giants worldwide This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Meltdown and Spectre Flaws Collateral Damage to OS Cloud Services Unavoidable...

Speculative execution side-channel attack ("Spectre") — Mozilla

Jann Horn of Google Project Zero Security reported that speculative execution performed by modern CPUs could leak information through a timing side-channel attack. Microsoft Vulnerability Research extended this attack to browser JavaScript engines and demonstrated that code on a malicious web pag...

mozilla -- Speculative execution side-channel attack

Mozilla Foundation reports: Jann Horn of Google Project Zero Security reported that speculative execution performed by modern CPUs could leak information through a timing side-channel attack. Microsoft Vulnerability Research extended this attack to browser JavaScript engines and demonstrated that...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:0011-1) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. This update adds mitigations for various side channel attacks against modern CPUs that could disclose content of otherwise unreadable memory bnc1068032. - CVE-2017-5753: Local attackers on systems with...

Multiple CPUs - Spectre Information Disclosure

Multiple CPUs - Spectre Information Disclosure / EDB Note: - https://spectreattack.com/ - https://spectreattack.com/spectre.pdf - https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.co.at/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html / include include include ifdef MSCVER include / for rdtscp and clflush /...

Security Notice: CPU Speculative Side Channel Vulnerabilities

NVIDIA's response to CPU speculative side channel vulnerabilities CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715, and CVE-2017-5754 January 3, 2018 This notice is in response to Google Project Zero's publication of novel information disclosure attacks that combine CPU speculative execution with known side channels...

Hashcat v4.0 - World's Fastest and Most Advanced Password Recovery Utility

hashcat is the world's fastest and most advanced password recovery utility, supporting five unique modes of attack for over 200 highly-optimized hashing algorithms. hashcat currently supports CPUs, GPUs, and other hardware accelerators on Linux, Windows, and OSX, and has facilities to help enable...

Schneider Electric Modicon Devices DoS Vulnerability (SEVD-2017-048-02)

Schneider Electric Modicon devices are prone to a denial of service DoS vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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 if...

CVE-2016-9158

CVE-2016-9158 affects SIMATIC S7-300 CPU family (including related ET200 CPUs and SIPLUS variants) and SIMATIC S7-400 PN/DP V6–V7 (with SIPLUS variants) and SIMATIC S7-410 V8. The issue is improper input handling: specially crafted packets to port 80/tcp can cause the devices to enter defect mode...

Fedora 24 : kernel (2016-9a16b2e14e)

Update to latest upstream stable release, Linux v4.6.4 For those with Skylake CPUs, please note that there may be instability with a recent microcode update. Read https://www.happyassassin.net/2016/07/07/psa-failure-to-boot-after-ker nel-update-on-skylake-systems/ and look for a system firmware...

Fedora 23 : kernel (2016-784d5526d8)

Update to latest upstream stable release, Linux v4.6.4 For those with Skylake CPUs, please note that there may be instability with a recent microcode update. Read https://www.happyassassin.net/2016/07/07/psa-failure-to-boot-after-ker nel-update-on-skylake-systems/ and look for a system firmware...

PT-2016-2920 · Linux +1 · Linux Kernel +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 4.6 Description: The issue is related to a race condition in the ion ioctl function, which can be exploited by calling ION IOC FREE on two CPUs simultaneously, potentially allowing local users to gain privileges...