SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:0011-1) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 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: Local attackers on systems with...

CPU hardware vulnerable to side-channel attacks

Overview CPU hardware implementations are vulnerable to cache side-channel attacks. These vulnerabilities are referred to as Meltdown and Spectre. Description CPU hardware implementations are vulnerable to side-channel attacks referred to as Meltdown and Spectre. Both Spectre and Meltdown take...

Reading privileged memory with a side-channel (Meltdown & Spectre)

We have discovered that CPU data cache timing can be abused to efficiently leak information out of mis-speculated execution, leading to at worst arbitrary virtual memory read vulnerabilities across local security boundaries in various contexts. Variants of this issue are known to affect many mode...

KB4056898: Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 January 2018 Security Update (Meltdown)(Spectre)

The remote Windows host is missing security update 4056898 or cumulative update 4056895. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - An vulnerability exists within microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and indirect branch prediction, which may allow an attacker with local...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2018:0011) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 Extended Update Support. 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...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2018:0020)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:0020 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: An industry-wide issue was found in th...

KB4056892: Windows 10 Version 1709 and Windows Server Version 1709 January 2018 Security Update (Meltdown)(Spectre)

The remote Windows host is missing security update 4056892 or 4073291. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - An vulnerability exists within microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and indirect branch prediction, which may allow an attacker with local user access to...

KB4056893: Windows 10 LTSB January 2018 Security Update (Meltdown)(Spectre)

The remote Windows host is missing security update 4056893 or 4075199. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - An vulnerability exists within microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and indirect branch prediction, which may allow an attacker with local user access to...

KB4056891: Windows 10 Version 1703 January 2018 Security Update (Meltdown)(Spectre)

The remote Windows host is missing security update 4056891 or 4057144. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - An vulnerability exists within microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and indirect branch prediction, which may allow an attacker with local user access to...

Information leak via side effects of speculative execution

ISSUE DESCRIPTION Processors give the illusion of a sequence of instructions executed one-by-one. However, in order to most efficiently use cpu resources, modern superscalar processors actually begin executing many instructions in parallel. In cases where instructions depend on the result of...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5754

Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and indirect branch prediction may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis of the data cache...

Meltdown and Spectre CPU Flaws Affect Intel, ARM, AMD Processors

Unlike the initial reports suggested about Intel chips being vulnerable to some severe ‘memory leaking’ flaws, full technical details about the vulnerabilities have now been emerged, which revealed that almost every modern processor since 1995 is vulnerable to the issues. Disclosed today by Googl...

Huge Flaws Affect Nearly Every Modern Device; Patch Could Hit CPU Performance

UPDATE: Researchers have finally disclosed complete technical details of two kernel side-channel attacks, Meltdown and Spectre—which affect not only Intel but also systems and devices running AMD, ARM processors—allowing attackers to steal sensitive data from the system memory. The first week of...

Meltdown and Spectre Side-Channel Vulnerabilities

US-CERT is aware of a set of security vulnerabilities—known as Meltdown and Spectre—that affect modern computer processors. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to obtain access to sensitive information. Users and administrators are encouraged to review Vulnerability Note...

Security Advisory 0031

Security Advisory 0031 PDF Date: January 3rd, 2018 Version: 1.0 Revision| Date| Changes ---|---|--- 1.0 | January 3rd, 2018 | Initial Release 1.1 | January 8th, 2018 | Updated description with expanded analysis Arista Products vulnerability report for the following CVEs: Spectre CVE-2017-5753:...

Geometry Dash Meltdown - Dangerous filesystem permissions, WebView code execution vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Geometry Dash Meltdown published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

MOTOCROSS MELTDOWN - Base64 encoded String, Customized SSL, Dangerous filesystem permissions vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application MOTOCROSS MELTDOWN published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

LinkedIn Intro Service to Shut Down March 7

LinkedIn announced on Friday it was shuttering its four-month-old Intro service which stirred up a privacy meltdown shortly after its release in October. Intro was an integrated service for iOS which sat as a proxy between the built-in iOS mail client and the user’s email provider. Intro would...

Alessandro Acquisti Discussed Facebook Research

Carnegie Mellon University researcher Alessandro Acquisti spoke at Black Hat on the “Faces of Facebook,” in which he discussed research showing how facial recognition software can be used to unite disparate silos of public and private data online, creating a comprehensive, Minority Report-style...