Google Enables 'Site Isolation' Feature By Default For Chrome Desktop Users

Google has by default enabled a security feature called "Site Isolation" in its web browser with the release of Chrome 67 for all desktop users to help them protect against many online threats, including Spectre and Meltdown attack. Site Isolation is a feature of the Google Chrome web browser tha...

hw: cpu: speculative store bypass

An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of Load & Store instructions a commonly used performance optimization. It relies on the presence of a precisely-defined instruction sequence in the privileged code as well as the...

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. Compass and AcSELerator Architect

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 8.2 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/Low skill level to exploit/Public exploits are available for these vulnerabilities Vendor: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. SEL Equipment: Compass and AcSELerator Architect Vulnerabilities: Incorrect Default Permissions,...

Modern OSs for embedded systems

At Kaspersky Lab we analyze the technologies available on cybersecurity market and this time we decided to look at what OS developers are offering for embedded systems or, in other words, the internet of things. Our primary interest is how and to what degree these OSs can solve...

Kicking the Rims – A Guide for Securely Writing and Auditing Chrome Extensions

Table of Contents A Thin Layer of Chrome Extension Security Prior-Art Isolated But Talkative Worlds A Quick Disclaimer Home is Where the manifest.json Is - The Basic Extension Layout The Extension Architecture, Namespace Isolation and the DOM The Same Origin Policy SOP in the Chrome Extension Wor...

Schneider Electric U.motion Builder

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 10.0 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: Schneider Electric Equipment: U.motion Builder Vulnerabilities: Command Injection, Cross-site Scripting, and Improper Input Validation 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of these...

CVE-2018-5108

A Blob URL can violate origin attribute segregation, allowing it to be accessed from a private browsing tab and for data to be passed between the private browsing tab and a normal tab. This could allow for the leaking of private information specific to the private browsing context. This issue is...

Partner Perspectives: How TrapX & Carbon Black Use Deception Technology to Better Protect Your Enterprise

As organizations continue to move toward digital transformation, the digital workspace ecosystem of IoT devices, endpoints, and networks continues to grow and evolve. This new landscape creates many opportunities for potential attackers. Security becomes even more important for everyone in this n...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for xen (openSUSE-SU-2018:1487-1)

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...

Security update for xen (important)

This update for xen fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2018-3639: Spectre V4 – Speculative Store Bypass aka "Memory Disambiguation" bsc1092631 This feature can be controlled by the "ssbd=on/off" commandline flag for the XEN hypervisor. - CVE-2018-10982: x86 vHPET interrupt...

Security update for chromium (important)

This update for chromium to version 66.0.3359.181 fixes the following issues: The following security issues were fixed boo1095163: CVE-2018-6123: Use after free in Blink. CVE-2018-6124: Type confusion in Blink. CVE-2018-6125: Overly permissive policy in WebUSB. CVE-2018-6126: Heap buffer overflow...

Security update for chromium (important)

This update for chromium to version 66.0.3359.181 fixes the following issues: The following security issues were fixed boo1095163: CVE-2018-6123: Use after free in Blink. CVE-2018-6124: Type confusion in Blink. CVE-2018-6125: Overly permissive policy in WebUSB. CVE-2018-6126: Heap buffer overflow...

Google Patches 34 Browser Bugs in Chrome 67, Adds Spectre Fixes

Google updated its Chrome browser to version 67.0.3396.62 on Tuesday patching 34 bugs and adding support for the credential management API called WebAuthn. The update will be available in the coming days for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms, Google said. Most notably to the browser update are...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2018:1456-1) (Spectre)

This update for xen fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed : - CVE-2018-3639: Spectre V4 Speculative Store Bypass aka 'Memory Disambiguation' bsc1092631 This feature can be controlled by the 'ssbd=on/off' commandline flag for the XEN hypervisor. - CVE-2018-10982: x86 vHPET interrupt...

SUSE-SU-2018:1456-1 Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2018-3639: Spectre V4 – Speculative Store Bypass aka 'Memory Disambiguation' bsc1092631 This feature can be controlled by the 'ssbd=on/off' commandline flag for the XEN hypervisor. - CVE-2018-10982: x86 vHPET interrupt...

Stable Channel Update for Desktop

The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 67 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. This will roll out over the coming days/weeks. Chrome 67.0.3396.62 contains a number of fixes and improvements -- a list of changes is available in the log. Watch out for upcoming...

USN-3645-2: Firefox regression

USN-3645-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update caused an issue where users experienced long UI pauses in some circumsances. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-5181

If a URL using the "file:" protocol is dragged and dropped onto an open tab that is running in a different child process the tab will open a local file corresponding to the dropped URL, contrary to policy. One way to make the target tab open more reliably in a separate process is to open it with...

Security update for Chromium (important)

This update for Chromium to version 66.0.3359.139 fixes the following issues: - CVE-2018-6118: Use after free in Media Cache bsc1091288 - CVE-2018-6085: Use after free in Disk Cache - CVE-2018-6086: Use after free in Disk Cache - CVE-2018-6087: Use after free in WebAssembly - CVE-2018-6088: Use...

Hyper-V Debugging Symbols Are Publicly Available

The security of Microsoft’s cloud services is a top priority for us. One of the technologies that is central to cloud security is Microsoft Hyper-V which we use to isolate tenants from one another in the cloud. Given the importance of this technology, Microsoft has made and continues to make...