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Meltdown and Spectre update for WildFire-500 Appliance
Palo Alto Networks has determined that the WildFire-500 WF-500 appliance is affected by the vulnerability disclosures known as Meltdown and Spectre, and has completed an update to address these issues. The WF-500 software update is now available to customers that use the WF-500 appliance for...
Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-alt security and bug fix update
An update for kernel-alt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 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 each vulnerability fro...
openSUSE Security Update : xen (openSUSE-2018-454) (Meltdown)
This update for xen to version 4.9.2 fixes several issues. This feature was added : - Added script, udev rule and systemd service to watch for vcpu online/offline events in a HVM domU. They are triggered via 'xl vcpu-set domU N' These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2018-8897: Prevent...
SUSE SLES11 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2018:1203-1) (Meltdown)
This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2018-8897: Prevent mishandling of debug exceptions on x86 XSA-260, bsc1090820 - Handle HPET timers in IO-APIC mode correctly to prevent malicious or buggy HVM guests from causing a hypervisor crash or potentially...
Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20180508) (Meltdown)
Security Fixes : - hw: cpu: speculative execution permission faults handling CVE-2017-5754 - Kernel: error in exception handling leads to DoS CVE-2018-8897 - kernel: nfsd: Incorrect handling of long RPC replies CVE-2017-7645 - kernel: Use-after-free vulnerability in DCCP socket CVE-2017-8824 -...
Kali Linux 2018.2 Release - The Best Penetration Testing Distribution
This Kali release is the first to include the Linux 4.15 kernel, which includes the x86 and x64 fixes for the much-hyped Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. It also includes much better support for AMD GPUs and support for AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization, which allows for encrypting virtual...
UPDATE: Kali Linux 2018.2 Release!
PenTestIT RSS Feed Second Kali Linux update of this year and this time, it is about the latest Kali Linux 2018.2 release! The last release was made available recently in the month of February. This new release includes all patches, fixes, updates, and improvements since the last release – Kali...
Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20180410) (Meltdown)
Security Fixes : - hw: cpu: speculative execution permission faults handling CVE-2017-5754, Important, KVM for Power - kernel: Buffer overflow in firewire driver via crafted incoming packets CVE-2016-8633, Important - kernel: Use-after-free vulnerability in DCCP socket CVE-2017-8824, Important -...
CVE-2018-10471
An OOB write issue was found in the way Xen hypervisor handled error in the Page Table Isolation PTI implementation, used to fix the Meltdown issue. It could occur while processing interrupt 'INT 0x80', when PV guest's vCPU has no handler for it. A malicious guest user/process could use this flaw...
x86: PV guest may crash Xen with XPTI
ISSUE DESCRIPTION The workaround for the Meltdown vulnerability XSA-254 failed to deal with an error code path connecting the INT 80 handling with general exception handling. This results in an unconditional write attempt of the value zero to an address near 2^64, in cases where a PV guest has no...
The Sky Is Falling! Responding Rationally to Headline Vulnerabilities
It’s happening more and more. Gill Langston, a Qualys Director of Product Management, speaks at RSA Conference 2018 High profile vulnerabilities like Meltdown and Spectre are disclosed, and become headline-grabbing news not just in the technology press, but on general news outlets worldwide. Even...
OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2018-0035) (Dirty COW) (Meltdown) (Spectre)
The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : please see Oracle VM Security Advisory OVMSA-2018-0035 for details. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The package checks in this plugin were extracted from OracleVM Security Advisory OVMSA-2018-0035...
Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALAS-2018-939) (Meltdown) (Spectre)
An updated kernel release for Amazon Linux has been made available which prevents speculative execution of indirect branches within the kernel. This release incorporates latest stable open source Linux security improvements to address CVE-2017-5715 within the kernel and builds upon previously...
RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2018:1129)
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:1129 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: An industry-wide issue was found in th...
APT Trends report Q1 2018
In the second quarter of 2017, Kaspersky's Global Research and Analysis Team GReAT began publishing summaries of the quarter's private threat intelligence reports in an effort to make the public aware of the research we have been conducting. This report serves as the next installment, focusing on...
AMD Rolls Out Spectre Fixes
AMD said that CPU firmware and Windows 10 patches are now available to safeguard its products against the Spectre security flaw. Mark Papermaster, senior vice president and chief technology officer at AMD, said in a Tuesday post that Spectre fixes are available for AMD customers, who can download...
KB4093112: Windows 10 Version 1709 and Windows Server Version 1709 April 2018 Security Update (Meltdown)(Spectre)
The remote Windows host is missing security update 4093112. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - An vulnerability exists within microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and indirect branch prediction, which may allow an attacker with local user access to disclose...
Labs CTNT report shows shift in threat landscape to cryptomining
It's that time again! Time for the quarterly Malwarebytes Labs Cybercrime Tactics and Techniques report aka the Labs CTNT report. To get a more complete picture of what's been going on in cybercrime this quarter, the Labs team has combined intel and statistics gathered from January through March...
