Kaiser health insurance leaked patient data to advertisers

Health insurance giant Kaiser has announced it will notify millions of patients about a data breach after sharing patients’ data with advertisers. Kaiser said that an investigation led to the discovery that “certain online technologies, previously installed on its websites and mobile applications...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-696.20.1.OL6 - Update genkey bug 25599697 2.6.32-696.20.1 - x86 kaiser/efi: unbreak tboot Waiman Long 1519799 1519802 CVE-2017-5754 - x86 pti/mm: Fix trampoline stack problem with XEN PV Waiman Long 1519799 1519802 CVE-2017-5754 - x86 pti/mm: Fix XEN PV boot failure Waiman Long 1519799...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

4.1.12-112.14.10 - x86/ia32: save and clear registers on syscall. Jamie Iles Orabug: 27355759 CVE-2017-5754 - x86/IBRS: Save current status of MSRIA32SPECCTRL Boris Ostrovsky Orabug: 27355887 - pti: Rename X86FEATUREKAISER to X86FEATUREPTI Pavel Tatashin Orabug: 27352353 CVE-2017-5754 - usb/core:...

Experts Weigh In On Spectre Patch Challenges

The race to patch against the Meltdown and Spectre processor vulnerabilities disclosed last week is on. As of today, there are no known exploits in the wild impacting vulnerable Intel, AMD and ARM devices. Currently, vendors are focused on three main mitigation efforts. Patches that address the...

Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2018-0008)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2018-0008 advisory. - x86 specctrl: svm: specctrl at vmexit needs per-cpu areas functional Waiman Long 1519797 1519796 CVE-2017-5715 - x86 specctrl: Eliminate redundnat...

SUSE-SU-2018:0010-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. This update adds mitigations for various side channel attacks against modern CPUs that could disclose content of otherwise unreadable memory bnc1068032. - CVE-2017-5753 / 'SpectreAttack': Local attackers...