Slackware 14.0 / 14.2 / current : kernel (SSA:2018-016-01) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 14.0 and 14.2 to fix security issues. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Slackware Security Advisory 2018-016-01. The text itself is copyright C Slackware Linux, Inc...

Oracle Critical Patch Update - January 2018

A Critical Patch Update is a collection of patches for multiple security vulnerabilities. Critical Patch Update patches are usually cumulative, but each advisory describes only the security fixes added since the previous Critical Patch Update advisory. Thus, prior Critical Patch Update advisories...

(RHSA-2018:0091) Important: Red Hat CloudForms 4.5 security update

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. CloudForms virtual machines include a copy of the Linux Kernel. Security Fixes: An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructio...

Fedora 27 : firefox (2018-276558ff6f)

Update to 57.0.4 - Security fixes to address the Meltdown and Spectre timing attacks - https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/01/03/mitigations -landing-new-class-timing-attack/ - Require new nss 3.34 fixed rhbz1531031 - Disabled ARM on all Fedoras due to rhbz1523912 Note that Tenable Network...

Fedora 27 : kernel (2018-22d5fa8a90)

The 4.14.11 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. This also includes the KPTI patches to mitigate the Meltdown vulnerability for x86 architectures. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update...

Oracle Linux 6 / 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2018-4011) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

Description of changes: 4.1.12-112.14.11.el7uek - 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 redux Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Orabug: 27369994 -...

Real World Crypto 2018 (RWC 2018) brain dump

The 2018 edition of Real World Crypto RWC was in Zurich you can find the conference full program here.. I live in Switzerland so I was extremely happy about it. RWC is basically the best conference I ever attended and it will probably be so for a while. I almost risked to skip it due to flu but I...

MGASA-2018-0078 Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update provided the upstream 4.14.13 and fixes several security issues. The most important fix in this update is for the security issue named "Meltdown" that is fixed in theese kernels by enabling kernel Page Table Isolation KTPI. Note that according to AMD, this issue does not...

MGASA-2018-0074 Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update is based on the upstream 4.4.111 and fixes several security issues. The most important fix in this update is for the security issue named "Meltdown" that is fixed in theese kernels by enabling kernel Page Table Isolation KTPI. Note that according to AMD, this issue does not...

MGASA-2018-0077 Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update is based on the upstream 4.14.13 and fixes several security issues. The most important fix in this update is for the security issue named "Meltdown" that is fixed in theese kernels by enabling kernel Page Table Isolation KTPI. Note that according to AMD, this issue does not...

MGASA-2018-0073 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.4.111 and fixes several security issues. The most important fix in this update is for the security issue named "Meltdown" that is fixed in theese kernels by enabling kernel Page Table Isolation KTPI. Note that according to AMD, this issue does not...

MGASA-2018-0075 Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update provides the upstream 4.4.111 and fixes several security issues. The most important fix in this update is for the security issue named "Meltdown" that is fixed in theese kernels by enabling kernel Page Table Isolation KTPI. Note that according to AMD, this issue does not...

MGASA-2018-0076 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.13 and fixes several security issues. The most important fix in this update is for the security issue named "Meltdown" that is fixed in theese kernels by enabling kernel Page Table Isolation KPTI. Note that according to AMD, this issue does not...

Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update provides the upstream 4.4.111 and fixes several security issues. The most important fix in this update is for the security issue named "Meltdown" that is fixed in theese kernels by enabling kernel Page Table Isolation KTPI. Note that according to AMD, this issue does not...

Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update is based on the upstream 4.4.111 and fixes several security issues. The most important fix in this update is for the security issue named "Meltdown" that is fixed in theese kernels by enabling kernel Page Table Isolation KTPI. Note that according to AMD, this issue does not...

Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update is based on the upstream 4.14.13 and fixes several security issues. The most important fix in this update is for the security issue named "Meltdown" that is fixed in theese kernels by enabling kernel Page Table Isolation KTPI. Note that according to AMD, this issue does not...

Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update provided the upstream 4.14.13 and fixes several security issues. The most important fix in this update is for the security issue named "Meltdown" that is fixed in theese kernels by enabling kernel Page Table Isolation KTPI. Note that according to AMD, this issue does not...

Updated nvidia-current packages mitigates security issues

This update provides version 384.111 from the R384 branch, in order to help mitigate Spectre and Meltdown CPU security issues and keeps the driver working with security hardened kernels. Note that so far, nVidia does believe that their GPUs are immune to the referenced security issues. It also ad...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.4.111 and fixes several security issues. The most important fix in this update is for the security issue named "Meltdown" that is fixed in theese kernels by enabling kernel Page Table Isolation KTPI. Note that according to AMD, this issue does not...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.13 and fixes several security issues. The most important fix in this update is for the security issue named "Meltdown" that is fixed in theese kernels by enabling kernel Page Table Isolation KPTI. Note that according to AMD, this issue does not...