USN-3741-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that memory present in the L1 data cache of an Intel CPU core may be exposed to a malicious process that is executing on the CPU core. This vulnerability is also known as L1 Terminal Fault L1TF. A local attacker in a guest virtual machine could use this to expose sensitive...

USN-3740-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that memory present in the L1 data cache of an Intel CPU core may be exposed to a malicious process that is executing on the CPU core. This vulnerability is also known as L1 Terminal Fault L1TF. A local attacker in a guest virtual machine could use this to expose sensitive...

USN-3740-2: Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3740-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. It was discovered that memory present in the L1 data cache of an Intel CPU core may be...

XenServer Multiple Security Updates

Description of Problem Several security issues have been identified that impact XenServer. Customers should consider these issues and determine possible impact to their own systems. These updates provide a mitigation for recently disclosed issues affecting Intel CPUs. These issues, if exploited,...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : microcode_ctl (SUSE-SU-2018:2076-1) (Spectre)

This update for microcodectl fixes the following issues: The Intel CPU Microcode bundle was updated to the 20180703 release For the listed CPU chipsets this fixes CVE-2018-3640 Spectre v3a and helps mitigating CVE-2018-3639 Spectre v4 bsc1100147 bsc1087082 bsc1087083 More details can be found on:...

SUSE-SU-2018:2076-1 Security update for microcode_ctl

This update for microcodectl fixes the following issues: The Intel CPU Microcode bundle was updated to the 20180703 release For the listed CPU chipsets this fixes CVE-2018-3640 Spectre v3a and helps mitigating CVE-2018-3639 Spectre v4 bsc1100147 bsc1087082 bsc1087083 More details can be found on:...

Microsoft's Meltdown Patch Made Windows 7 PCs More Insecure

Meltdown CPU vulnerability was bad, and Microsoft somehow made the flaw even worse on its Windows 7, allowing any unprivileged, user-level application to read content from and even write data to the operating system's kernel memory. For those unaware, Spectre and Meltdown were security flaws...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : microcode_ctl (SUSE-SU-2018:0705-1) (Spectre)

This update for ucode-intel fixes the following issues: The Intel CPU microcode version was updated to version 20180312. This update enables the IBPB+IBRS based mitigations of the Spectre v2 flaws boo1085207 CVE-2017-5715 - New Platforms - BDX-DE EGW A0 6-56-5:10 e000009 - SKX B1 6-55-3:97 100014...

Security update for ucode-intel (important)

This update for ucode-intel fixes the following issues: The Intel CPU microcode version was updated to version 20180312. This update enables the IBPB+IBRS based mitigations of the Spectre v2 flaws boo1085207 CVE-2017-5715 - New Platforms - BDX-DE EGW A0 6-56-5:10 e000009 - SKX B1 6-55-3:97 100014...

SUSE-SU-2018:0705-1 Security update for microcode_ctl

This update for ucode-intel fixes the following issues: The Intel CPU microcode version was updated to version 20180312. This update enables the IBPB+IBRS based mitigations of the Spectre v2 flaws boo1085207 CVE-2017-5715 - New Platforms - BDX-DE EGW A0 6-56-5:10 e000009 - SKX B1 6-55-3:97 100014...

SUSE-SU-2018:0708-1 Security update for ucode-intel

This update for ucode-intel fixes the following issues: The Intel CPU microcode version was updated to version 20180312. This update enables the IBPB+IBRS based mitigations of the Spectre v2 flaws boo1085207 CVE-2017-5715 - New Platforms - BDX-DE EGW A0 6-56-5:10 e000009 - SKX B1 6-55-3:97 100014...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : ucode-intel (SUSE-SU-2018:0067-1) (Spectre)

This update for ucode-intel fixes the following issues: Updated to Intel CPU Microcode version 20180108 bsc1075262 The pre-released microcode fixing some important security issues is now officially published and included in the added tarball. New firmware updates since last version 20170707 are...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for ucode-intel (openSUSE-SU-2018:0066-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; you can...

openSUSE Security Update : ucode-intel (openSUSE-2018-24) (Spectre)

This update for ucode-intel fixes the following issues : Update to Intel CPU Microcode version 20180108 boo1075262 - The pre-released microcode fixing some important security issues is now officially published and included in the added tarball. New firmware updates since last version 20170707 are...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : qemu (SUSE-SU-2018:0056-1) (Spectre)

This update for qemu fixes the following issues: A mitigation for a security flaw has been applied : - CVE-2017-5715: QEMU was updated to allow passing through new MSR and CPUID flags from the host VM to the CPU, to allow enabling/disabling branch prediction features in the Intel CPU. bsc1068032...

SUSE-SU-2018:0056-1 Security update for qemu

This update for qemu fixes the following issues: A mitigation for a security flaw has been applied: - CVE-2017-5715: QEMU was updated to allow passing through new MSR and CPUID flags from the host VM to the CPU, to allow enabling/disabling branch prediction features in the Intel CPU. bsc1068032...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kvm (SUSE-SU-2018:0039-1) (Spectre)

This update for kvm fixes the following issues: A security flaw mitigation has been applied : - CVE-2017-5715: QEMU was updated to allow passing through new MSR and CPUID flags from the host VM to the CPU, to allow enabling/disabling branch prediction features in the Intel CPU. bsc1068032 Also a...

SUSE-SU-2018:0036-1 Security update for qemu

This update for qemu fixes the following issues: This update for qemu fixes the following issues: A mitigation for a security flaw has been applied: - CVE-2017-5715: QEMU was updated to allow passing through new MSR and CPUID flags from the host VM to the CPU, to allow enabling/disabling branch...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : qemu (SUSE-SU-2018:0036-1) (Spectre)

This update for qemu fixes the following issues: This update for qemu fixes the following issues: A mitigation for a security flaw has been applied : - CVE-2017-5715: QEMU was updated to allow passing through new MSR and CPUID flags from the host VM to the CPU, to allow enabling/disabling branch...

OracleVM 3.4 : microcode_ctl (OVMSA-2018-0003)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - Enable early microcode load to allow updating Broadwell model 79 - Make sure 'modprobe microcode' is not executed on Broadwell model 79 - Run dracut upon microcode update - Update Intel CPU microde fo...