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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

How to Protect your Device from Meltdown and Spectre?

By Waqas The devastating discovery about security flaws namely Meltdown and Spectre This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How to Protect your Device from Meltdown and Spectre?...

Oracle Linux 7 : microcode_ctl (ELSA-2018-0012)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2018-0012 advisory. 2.1-22.2 - Update Intel CPU microde for 06-3f-02, 06-4f-01, and 06-55-04 - Resolves: 1527358 2.1-22.1 - Update to upstream 2.1-13. Intel CPU microcode update to...

Oracle Linux 6 : microcode_ctl (ELSA-2018-0013)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2018-0013 advisory. 1:1.17-25.2 - Update Intel CPU microde for 06-3f-02, 06-4f-01, and 06-55-04 - Add amd microcodeamdfam17h.bin data file - Resolves: 1527357 1:1.17-25.1 - Update...

SUSE-SU-2018:0020-1 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...

Citrix XenServer Multiple Security Updates

Important Note Due to concerns about the robustness of some of the Intel microcode updates included in the earlier hotfixes for these issues XS71ECU1009, XS72E013 and XS73E001, Citrix has superseded these hotfixes with new hotfixes listed below. Customers are strongly recommended to apply these n...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : qemu (SUSE-SU-2018:0007-1) (Spectre)

This update for qemu fixes the following issues: A new feature was added : - Support EPYC vCPU type bsc1052825 fate324038 Also a mitigation for a security problem 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...