Intel Details CPU ‘Virtual Fences’ Fix As Safeguard Against Spectre, Meltdown Flaws

Intel introduced hardware-based protections to its new chips to protect against the Spectre and Meltdown flaws that rocked the silicon industry when the vulnerabilities were made public in early 2018. Spectre and Meltdown, which account for three variants of a side-channel analysis security issue...

USN-3597-2: Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3597-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 17.10. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 17.10 for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. USNS 3541-2 and 3523-2 provided mitigations for Spectre and Meltdown CVE-2017-5715,...

USN-3597-2 linux-hwe vulnerabilities

USN-3597-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 17.10. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 17.10 for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. USNS 3541-2 and 3523-2 provided mitigations for Spectre and Meltdown CVE-2017-5715,...

USN-3597-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

USNS 3541-1 and 3523-1 provided mitigations for Spectre and Meltdown CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5754 for the i386, amd64, and ppc64el architectures in Ubuntu 17.10. This update provides the corresponding mitigations for the arm64 architecture. Original advisory details: Jann Horn...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2018:0678-1) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5754: Prevent information leaks via side effects of speculative execution, aka 'Spectre' and 'Meltdown' attacks bsc1074562, bsc1068032 - CVE-2018-5683: The vgadrawtext function...

Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2018-0512) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2018:0512 : An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. 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, ...

Ubuntu 17.10 : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3597-1) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

USNS 3541-1 and 3523-1 provided mitigations for Spectre and Meltdown CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5754 for the i386, amd64, and ppc64el architectures in Ubuntu 17.10. This update provides the corresponding mitigations for the arm64 architecture. Original advisory details : Jann Horn...

CentOS 6 : kernel (CESA-2018:0512) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. 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 from th...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3597-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3597-2 advisory. USN-3597-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 17.10. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement H...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3597-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG 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-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3597-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG 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-only ifdescription...

FreeBSD : FreeBSD -- Speculative Execution Vulnerabilities (74daa370-2797-11e8-95ec-a4badb2f4699) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

A number of issues relating to speculative execution were found last year and publicly announced January 3rd. Two of these, known as Meltdown and Spectre V2, are addressed here. CVE-2017-5754 Meltdown - ------------------------ This issue relies on an affected CPU speculatively executing...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20180313) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

Security Fixes : - hw: cpu: speculative execution branch target injection s390-only CVE-2017-5715, Important - hw: cpu: speculative execution bounds-check bypass s390 and powerpc CVE-2017-5753, Important - hw: cpu: speculative execution permission faults handling powerpc-only CVE-2017-5754 Bug...

Mitigating speculative execution side channel hardware vulnerabilities

On January 3rd, 2018, Microsoft released an advisory and security updates related to a newly discovered class of hardware vulnerabilities involving speculative execution side channels known as Spectre and Meltdown that affect AMD, ARM, and Intel CPUs to varying degrees. If you haven’t had a chanc...

Mitigating speculative execution side channel hardware vulnerabilities

On January 3rd, 2018, Microsoft released an advisory and security updates related to a newly discovered class of hardware vulnerabilities involving speculative execution side channels known as Spectre and Meltdown that affect AMD, ARM, and Intel CPUs to varying degrees. If you haven’t had a chanc...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-696.23.1.OL6 - Update genkey bug 25599697 2.6.32-696.23.1 - scsi avoid a permanent stop of the scsi device's request queue Ewan Milne 1519857 1513455 - x86 retpoline/hyperv: Convert assembler indirect jumps Waiman Long 1543022 1535645 - x86 specctrl: Upgrade GCC retpoline warning to an err...

FreeBSD-SA-18:03.speculative_execution

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-18:03.speculativeexecution Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Speculative Execution Vulnerabilities Category: core Module: kernel Announced: 2018-03-1...

FreeBSD -- Speculative Execution Vulnerabilities

Problem Description: A number of issues relating to speculative execution were found last year and publicly announced January 3rd. Two of these, known as Meltdown and Spectre V2, are addressed here. CVE-2017-5754 Meltdown - ------------------------ This issue relies on an affected CPU speculative...

March Patch Tuesday – 75 Microsoft vulnerabilities, 7 for Adobe

Today's Patch Tuesday covers a lot of vulnerabilities, but in terms of critical updates, it is still light. Out of the 75 vulnerabilities covered, only 15 are marked as critical. Adobe has released patches as well, covering 7 vulnerabilities. All of the critical vulnerabilities from Microsoft are...

Microsoft Patches 15 Critical Bugs in March Patch Tuesday Update

Microsoft patched 15 critical vulnerabilities this month as part of its March Patch Tuesday roundup of fixes. In all, the company issued 75 fixes, with 61 rated important. Products receiving the most urgent patches included Microsoft browsers and browser-related technologies such as the company’s...