Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in Bash affect certain Intel Xeon Phi PCIe cards supported in IBM System x servers (CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-7169, CVE-2014-7186, CVE-2014-7187, CVE-2014-6277, CVE-2014-6278)

Summary Six Bash vulnerabilities were disclosed in September 2014. This bulletin addresses the vulnerabilities that have been referred to as "Bash Bug" or "Shellshock" and two memory corruption vulnerabilities. Bash is used by Intel MPSS Manycore Platform Software Stack used with the Intel Xeon P...

Fedora 28 : glibc (2018-916dfe0d86)

This update ensures that valgrind works again without installing glibc debuginfo packages RHBZ1570246. It also addresses a security vulnerability in the mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi processors CVE-2018-11237, RHBZ1581275. Furthermore, the switch to libidn2 uses the final upstream...

Foreshadow Attacks — 3 New Intel CPU Side-Channel Flaws Discovered

2018 has been quite a tough year for Intel. While the chip-maker giant is still dealing with Meltdown and Spectre processor vulnerabilities, yet another major speculative execution flaw has been revealed in Intel's Core and Xeon lines of processors that may leave users vulnerable to cyber-attacks...

Design/Logic Flaw

Existing UEFI setting restrictions for DCI Direct Connect Interface in 5th and 6th generation Intel Xeon Processor E3 Family, Intel Xeon Scalable processors, and Intel Xeon Processor D Family allows a limited physical presence attacker to potentially access platform secrets via debug interfaces...

CVE-2018-3652

Existing UEFI setting restrictions for DCI Direct Connect Interface in 5th and 6th generation Intel Xeon Processor E3 Family, Intel Xeon Scalable processors, and Intel Xeon Processor D Family allows a limited physical presence attacker to potentially access platform secrets via debug interfaces...

CVE-2018-3652

CVE-2018-3652 relates to UEFI DCI (Direct Connect Interface) restrictions on 5th/6th gen Intel Xeon E3, Xeon Scalable, and Xeon D processors. The issue could allow a limited physical presence attacker to access platform secrets via debug interfaces when DCI policy/UEFI controls are in effect. The...

Platform firmware included insecure handling of certain UEFI variables

Summary: This update improves the security of the firmware and the ability to enable secure configuration. Description: Insecure handling of UEFI variables in Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 v4 Family, Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 v3 Family system firmware potentially...

AMD / ARM / Intel - Speculative Execution Variant 4 Speculative Store Bypass

/ ======== Intro / Overview ======== After Michael Schwarz made some interesting observations, we started looking into variants other than the three already-known ones. I noticed that Intel's Optimization Manual says in section 2.4.4.5 "Memory Disambiguation": A load instruction micro-op may depe...

Multiple CPU Hardware CVE-2018-3639 Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Description Multiple CPU Hardware are prone to an information-disclosure vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this issue to obtain sensitive information that may aid in further attacks. Technologies Affected ARM Cortex A15 ARM Cortex A57 ARM Cortex A72 IBM AIX 5.3 IBM AIX 6.1 IBM AIX 7.1 IBM Aix...

Intel SGX Update and Attestation Key Recovery - US

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-15184 Potential Impact: Elevation of Privilege / Information Disclosure Severity: High Scope of Impact: Industry Wide CVE Identifier: CVE-2017-5691 Summary Description: Intel has discovered a vulnerability that could impact the security of Intel® Software Guard...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : Recommended update for tboot (SUSE-SU-2017:3114-1)

This update for tboot provides the following fix: Security issue fixed : - CVE-2014-5118: tboot: bypass of measured boot bsc889339 Bug fixes : - Fixed failed trusted boot on some systems like Intel Xeon 'Purley 8s' processors. The following error message showed: 'TBOOT: wait-for-sipi loop...

SUSE-SU-2017:3114-1 Recommended update for tboot

This update for tboot provides the following fix: Security issue fixed: - CVE-2014-5118: tboot: bypass of measured boot bsc889339 Bug fixes: - Fixed failed trusted boot on some systems like Intel Xeon 'Purley 8s' processors. The following error message showed: 'TBOOT: wait-for-sipi loop timed-out...

SUSE-SU-2017:3090-1 Recommended update for tboot

This update for tboot fixes the following issues: Security issue fixed: - CVE-2017-16837: Certain function pointers in Trusted Boot tboot through 1.9.6 are notvalidated and can cause arbitrary code execution, which allows local users tooverwrite dynamic PCRs of Trusted Platform Module TPM by h...

CVE-2017-5691

CVE-2017-5691 covers an incorrect check in Intel processors (6th/7th Gen Core, Xeon E3-1500M v5/v6, E3-1200 v5/v6) that can allow a compromised system firmware to impact Intel SGX via an incorrect early system state. Public sources identify the affected hardware and provide remediation guidance. ...

April 11, 2017—KB4015547 (Security-only update)

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April 11, 2017—KB4015550 (Monthly Rollup)

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RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2016:1489)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 Extended 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...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 Extended 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...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20151208)

It was found that the x86 ISA Instruction Set Architecture is prone to a denial of service attack inside a virtualized environment in the form of an infinite loop in the microcode due to the way sequential delivering of benign exceptions such as AC alignment check exception and DB debug exception...

CentOS 7 : kernel (CESA-2015:2552)

Updated kernel packages that fix two security issues, several bugs, and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detail...