Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3540-2)

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...

Lies and More Lies

Following the release of the Spectre and Meltdown CPU attacks, the security community wondered if other researchers would find related speculative attack problems. When the following appeared, we were concerned: "Skyfall and Solace More vulnerabilities in modern computers. Following the recent...

SUSE-SU-2018:0171-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. This update is only provided as a fix update for IBM Z platform. - CVE-2017-5753 / 'Spectre Attack': IBM Z fixes were included but not enabled in the previous update. This update enables those fixes...

Windows システム上の Spectre および Meltdown に対する緩和策のパフォーマンスへの影響について

本記事は、Microsoft Secure ブログ “Understanding the performance impact of Spectre and Meltdown mitigations on Windows Systems”...

OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2018-0012) (Spectre)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - Revert 'kernel.spec: Require the new microcodectl.' Brian Maly - xen-blkback: add pendingreq allocation stats Ankur Arora Orabug: 27386890 - xen-blkback: move indirect req allocation out-of-line Ankur...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:0131-1) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. This update is only provided as a fix update for IBM Z platform. - CVE-2017-5753 / 'Spectre Attack': IBM Z fixes were included but not enabled in the previous update. This update enables those fixes. -...

Meltdown and Spectre Aren’t Business as Usual

The new year brought a new vulnerability type — the CPU-based Meltdown and Spectre bugs — that’s forcing vendors and IT departments to modify long-standing ways of identifying threats, prioritizing remediation, managing patches and evaluating risk. “Meltdown and Spectre are different...

Intel Says Firmware Fixes for Spectre and Meltdown Affecting Newer Chips

Intel’s efforts to issue fixes for the Spectre and Meltdown CPU vulnerabilities are still hitting some bumps in the road, a company executive said in a blog post. “We have now issued firmware updates for 90 percent of Intel CPUs introduced in the past five years, but we have more work to do,” sai...

SUSE-SU-2018:0131-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. This update is only provided as a fix update for IBM Z platform. - CVE-2017-5753 / 'Spectre Attack': IBM Z fixes were included but not enabled in the previous update. This update enables those fixes. -...

Beers with Talos EP20: Crypto, Vuln Disco, and the Spectre Meltdown

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast Episode 20 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing: www.talosintelligence.com/podcast EP20 Show Notes: This is easily our best podcast of 2018 so far. The crew discusses the recent spike in...

OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2018-0010) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - x86/pti/efi: broken conversion from efi to kernel page table Pavel Tatashin Orabug: 27363926 Orabug: 27352353 CVE-2017-5754 - x86/spec: Always set IBRS to guest value on VMENTER and host on VMEXIT red...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

4.1.12-112.14.13 - Revert 'kernel.spec: Require the new microcodectl.' Brian Maly 4.1.12-112.14.12 - xen-blkback: add pendingreq allocation stats Ankur Arora Orabug: 27386890 - xen-blkback: move indirect req allocation out-of-line Ankur Arora Orabug: 27386890 - xen-blkback: pull nseg validation o...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:0113-1) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. This update is only provided as a fix update for IBM Z platform. - CVE-2017-5753 / 'Spectre Attack': IBM Z fixes were included but not enabled in the previous update. This update enables those fixes. -...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:0115-1) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 GA LTSS 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...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:0114-1) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. This update is only provided as a fix update for IBM Z platform. - CVE-2017-5753 / 'Spectre Attack': IBM Z fixes were included but not enabled in the previous update. This update enables those fixes...

Meltdown / Spectre Mitigation Is a Work in Progress

Since researchers disclosed the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities on Jan. 3, vendors and IT departments have been consumed trying to figure out how to properly address the potentially devastating effects of these kernel-level bugs. By now, one thing we know for sure is that dealing with the...

SUSE-SU-2018:0115-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 GA LTSS 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...

SUSE-SU-2018:0114-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. This update is only provided as a fix update for IBM Z platform. - CVE-2017-5753 / 'Spectre Attack': IBM Z fixes were included but not enabled in the previous update. This update enables those fixes...

SUSE-SU-2018:0113-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. This update is only provided as a fix update for IBM Z platform. - CVE-2017-5753 / 'Spectre Attack': IBM Z fixes were included but not enabled in the previous update. This update enables those fixes. -...

[slackware-security] kernel

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 14.0 and 14.2 to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/linux-4.4.111/: Upgraded. This kernel includes mitigations for the Spectre variant 2 and Meltdown speculative side channel attacks. Be sur...