New Class of CPU Flaws Affect Almost Every Intel Processor Since 2011

Academic researchers today disclosed details of the newest class of speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities in Intel processors that impacts all modern chips, including the chips used in Apple devices. After the discovery of Spectre and Meltdown processor vulnerabilities earlier last...

New Class of CPU Flaws Affect Almost Every Intel Processor Since 2011

Academic researchers today disclosed details of the newest class of speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities in Intel processors that impacts all modern chips, including the chips used in Apple devices. After the discovery of Spectre and Meltdown processor vulnerabilities earlier last...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 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...

Adobe Addresses Critical Adobe Flash Player, Acrobat Reader Flaws

Adobe has issued patches for critical flaws across its Adobe Flash Player and Acrobat Reader products, which could enable arbitrary code execution. Overall, the company fixed 87 vulnerabilities across Acrobat and Reader, Flash Player and Adobe Media Encoder as part of its regularly-scheduled...

RHEL 6 : libvirt (RHSA-2019:1180)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1180 advisory. The libvirt library contains a C API for managing and interacting with the virtualization capabilities of Linux and other operating systems...

Pivotal Software Spring Data JPA Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Pivotal Software Spring Data JPA is the United States Pivotal Software, Inc. set of applications used to simplify and create JPA-based data access layer development. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Pivotal Software Spring Data JPA. The vulnerability stems from errors such as...

A week in security (May 6 – 12)

Last week on Labs, we discussed what to do when you discover a data breach, how 5G could impact cybersecurity strategy, the top six takeaways for user privacy, vulnerabilities in financial mobile apps that put consumers and businesses at risk, and in our series about vital infrastructure, we...

Nvidia Warns Windows Gamers on GPU Driver Flaws

Graphics chipmaker Nvidia has issued three patches for high-severity vulnerabilities in its GPU display driver, which could lead to information disclosure, escalation of privileges and denial of service DoS in impacted Windows gaming devices. Nvidia’s graphics driver for Windows is used in device...

Google Patches Critical Remote Code-Execution Flaws in Android

Google patched four remote code-execution RCE flaws as part of its May Android Security Bulletin. Three of the critical bugs are tied to the System portion of the Android platform architecture, responsible for core apps such as the dialer, email and camera. A fourth critical RCE bug opens the doo...

The vulnerability of the SAP HANA Extended Application Services application development tool in the SAP Landscape Management automation system allows a perpetrator to execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of the SAP HANA Extended Application Services application development tool in the SAP Landscape Management automation system is related to deficiencies in the authentication process. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to execute arbitrary code using a special...

Dell Security Support Tool Harbors High-Severity Flaws

Two high-severity flaws in Dell’s client support tool, SupportAssist Client, could enable remote code-execution RCE and cross-site request forgery CSRF attacks. SupportAssist helps users remove viruses or detect security issues on their PCs, and comes preinstalled on most new Dell devices. “Dell...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language commonly used with the Apache HTTP Server. The rh-php56 packages provide a recent stable release of PHP with PEAR 1.9.5 and enhanced language features including constant expressions, variadic functions, arguments unpacking, and the interactive debuger. T...

Arbitrary Code Execution

Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser. XULRunner provides the XUL Runtime environment for Mozilla Firefox. Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with...

Authentication Bypass

Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser. XULRunner provides the XUL Runtime environment for Mozilla Firefox. Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with...

Arbitrary Code Execution

Network Security Services NSS is a set of libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications. Netscape Portable Runtime NSPR provides platform independence for non-GUI operating system facilities. A use-after-poison flaw and a heap-based...

Man-In-The-Middle (MitM)

Red Hat Satellite is a systems management tool for Linux-based infrastructures. It allows for provisioning, remote management and monitoring of multiple Linux deployments with a single, centralized tool. It performs provisioning and configuration management of predefined standard operating...

Arbitrary Code Execution

Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser. XULRunner provides the XUL Runtime environment for Mozilla Firefox. Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with...

Arbitrary Code Execution

Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser. XULRunner provides the XUL Runtime environment for Mozilla Firefox. Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with...

Arbitrary Code Execution

Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser. XULRunner provides the XUL Runtime environment for Mozilla Firefox. Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with...

Sandbox Restrictions Bypass

IBM Java SE version 6 includes the IBM Java Runtime Environment and the IBM Java Software Development Kit. This update fixes several vulnerabilities in the IBM Java Runtime Environment and the IBM Java Software Development Kit. Further information about these flaws can be found on the IBM Java...