RHEL 7 : redhat-virtualization-host (RHSA-2018:0047) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

An update for redhat-virtualization-host is now available for RHEV 4.X, RHEV-H, and Agents 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 severit...

EulerOS 2.0 SP1 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2018-1002)

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - The recent speculative execution CVEs address three potential attacks across a wide variety of architectures and hardware platforms. - Note: Thi...

Apple Releases Spectre Patches for Safari, macOS and iOS

Apple released iOS 11.2.2 software Monday for iPhones, iPads and iPod touch models that patch for the Spectre vulnerabilities. A macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 supplemental update was also released to bolster Spectre defenses in Apple’s Safari browser and WebKit, the web browser engine used by Safari,...

January 8, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Golden Globes” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! January 8, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Carbon Black 2017 Threat...

Meltdown and Spectre

Cisco Talos is aware of three new vulnerabilities impacting Intel, AMD, Qualcomm and ARM processors used by almost all computers. We are investigating these issues and although we have not observed exploitation of these vulnerabilities in the wild, that does not mean that it has not occurred. We...

SA161: Local Information Disclosure Due to Meltdown and Spectre Attacks

SUMMARY Symantec Network Protection products, which run on an affected CPU chipset and execute arbitrary code from external sources, are susceptible to several information disclosure vulnerabilities aka Meltdown and Spectre attacks. A remote attacker, with the ability to execute arbitrary code...

Important kernel security update: Fixes for Meltdown and Spectre exploits; new kernel 3.10.0-693.11.6.vz7.40.4, Virtuozzo 7.0 Update 6 Hotfix 3 (7.0.6-710)

This update provides a new Virtuozzo 7.0 kernel 3.10.0-693.11.6.vz7.40.4 that is a rebase to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 kernel 3.10.0-693.11.6.el7. The rebase fixes an industry-wide issue that was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:0031-1) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 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...

EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2018-1001)

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - The recent speculative execution CVEs address three potential attacks across a wide variety of architectures and hardware platforms. - Note: Thi...

Debian DLA-1232-1 : linux security update (Meltdown)

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks. CVE-2017-5754 Multiple researchers have discovered a vulnerability in Intel processors, enabling an attacker controlling an unprivileged process to rea...

Meltdown and Spectre - Impact On Node.js

Meltdown and Spectre - Impact On Node.js Summary Project zero has recently announced some new attacks that have received a lot of attention: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.ca/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html. The risk from these attacks to systems running Node.js resides in th...

Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-1232-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 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...

Experts Weigh In On Spectre Patch Challenges

The race to patch against the Meltdown and Spectre processor vulnerabilities disclosed last week is on. As of today, there are no known exploits in the wild impacting vulnerable Intel, AMD and ARM devices. Currently, vendors are focused on three main mitigation efforts. Patches that address the...

[SECURITY] [DLA 1232-1] linux security update

Package : linux Version : 3.2.96-3 CVE ID : CVE-2017-5754 CVE-2017-17558 CVE-2017-17741 CVE-2017-17805 CVE-2017-17806 CVE-2017-17807 Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks. CVE-2017-5754...

In-Spectre-Meltdown - Tool to identify Meltdown & Spectre Vulnerabilities in processors

This tool allows to check speculative execution side-channel attacks that affect many modern processors and operating systems designs. CVE-2017-5754 Meltdown and CVE-2017-5715 Spectre allows unprivileged processes to steal secrets from privileged processes. These attacks present 3 different ways ...

Visualizing Spectre/Meltdown Impact and Remediation Progress

In order to determine the impact of Spectre/Meltdown and track remediation progress across your entire environment, it is important to visualize vulnerability detections in a dynamic dashboard. For more information on Spectre and Meltdown, please see our previous blog. Using Qualys AssetView, we...

Important kernel security update: Fixes for Meltdown and Spectre exploits; new kernel 2.6.32-042stab127.2, Virtuozzo 6.0 Update 12 Hotfix 20 (6.0.12-3690)

This update provides a new Virtuozzo 6.0 kernel 2.6.32-042stab127.2 that is a rebase to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 kernel 2.6.32-696.18.7.el6. The rebase fixes an industry-wide issue that was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of...

Important kernel security update: Fixes for Meltdown and Spectre exploits; new kernel 2.6.32-042stab127.2 for Virtuozzo Containers for Linux 4.7, Server Bare Metal 5.0

This update provides a new Virtuozzo Containers for Linux 4.7 and Server Bare Metal 5.0 kernel 2.6.32-042stab127.2 that is a rebase to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 kernel 2.6.32-696.18.7.el6. The rebase fixes an industry-wide issue that was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs...

Home Download Photon OS User Documentation FAQ Security Advisories Related Information Lightwave - PHSA-2018-1.0-0097

An update of linux packages for PhotonOS has been released. This kernel update fixes vulnerability CVE-2017-5754 which is commonly known as Meltdown vulnerability...

Security Advisory - CPU Vulnerabilities 'Meltdown' and 'Spectre'

Security researchers disclosed two groups of CPU vulnerabilities "Meltdown" and "Spectre". In some circumstances, a local attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to read memory information belonging to other processes or other operating system kernel. Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2018-01001,...