Fake Spectre and Meltdown patch pushes Smoke Loader malware

The Meltdown and Spectre bugs have generated a lot of media attention, and users have been urged to update their machines with fixes made available by various vendors. While some patches have created more issues than they fixed, we came across a particular one targeted at German users that actual...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of January 8, 2018

Last week, three interesting vulnerabilities popped up on the news and security feeds. Researchers disclosed CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5715, collectively known as Spectre, and CVE-2017-5754, known as Meltdown. These vulnerabilities take advantage of “speculative execution” of instructions...

This Week in Security News: Meltdowns and Hijacks

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, we saw discussions on the vulnerabilities of chat bots and AI programs, and the types of software that may not be safe from malware and...

New Intel AMT Security Issue Lets Hackers Gain Full Control of Laptops in 30 Seconds

It's been a terrible new-year-starting for Intel. Researchers warn of a new attack which can be carried out in less than 30 seconds and potentially affects millions of laptops globally. As Intel was rushing to roll out patches for Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, security researchers have...

NVIDIA Linux GPU Display Driver 384.x < 384.111 / 390.x < 390.12 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Meltdown)(Spectre)

The NVIDIA GPU display driver software on the remote host is missing a security update. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid105776; scriptversion"1.14";...

OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2018-0008) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - x86/ia32: save and clear registers on syscall. Jamie Iles Orabug: 27355759 CVE-2017-5754 - x86/IBRS: Save current status of MSRIA32SPECCTRL Boris Ostrovsky - pti: Rename X86FEATUREKAISER to...

NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver 384.x / 385.x / 386.x < 386.07 / 390.x < 390.65 Multiple Vulnerabilities (Meltdown)(Spectre)

The NVIDIA GPU display driver software on the remote host is missing a security update. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid105777; scriptversion"1.14";...

Meltdown and Spectre fallout: patching problems persist

Last week, the disclosure by multiple teams from Graz and Pennsylvania University, Rambus, Data61, Cyberus Technology, and Google Project Zero of vulnerabilities under the aliases Meltdown and Spectre rocked the security world, sending vendors scurrying to create patches, if at all possible, and...

SUSE-SU-2018:0069-1 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. -...

Tracking changes in CERT bulletins and Nessus plugins using Vulners Time Machine

If you use Vulners.com vulnerability search engine, you probably know that it has a real "Time Machine". Each time Vulners sees some changes on a source page it creates a new version of security object. And you can see the full history of changes in a nice GUI: In most cases, the vendor just...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3523-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3523-2 advisory. USN-3523-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 17.10. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement H...

Fedora 26 : firefox (2018-fb582aabcc)

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 1531031 - Disabled ARM on all Fedoras due to 1523912 Note that Tenable Network Security...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) regression (USN-3522-4)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3522-4 advisory. USN-3522-2 fixed a vulnerability in the Linux Hardware Enablement kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to address Meltdown CVE-2017-5754. Unfortunately, that update...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel regression (USN-3522-3)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3522-3 advisory. USN-3522-1 fixed a vulnerability in the Linux kernel to address Meltdown CVE-2017-5754. Unfortunately, that update introduced a regression where a few systems...

Critical: kernel

Issue Overview: 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 upo...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3522-4)

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-3523-2)

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...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3522-3)

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...

USN-3522-4: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) regression | Cloud Foundry

Severity Critical Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 14.04 Description USN-3522-2 fixed a vulnerability in the Linux Hardware Enablement kernel for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to address Meltdown CVE-2017-5754. Unfortunately, that update introduced a regression where a few systems...

USN-3522-2: Linux (Xenial HWE) vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

Severity Critical Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 14.04 Description USN-3522-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu...