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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...

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...

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,...

The Spectre of Chips on Meltdown

The news is rife with emerging details of Intel and other chip vulnerabilities and the hardware bugs that can potentially exploit them. While details are still developing and will likely continue to be uncovered in the days, weeks, and even months ahead, we will explore what is known to date...

Scary Chip Flaws Raise Spectre of Meltdown

Apple, Google, Microsoft and other tech giants have released updates for a pair of serious security flaws present in most modern computers, smartphones, tablets and mobile devices. Here's a brief rundown on the threat and what you can do to protect your devices. At issue are two different...

Spectre and Meltdown Attacks Against Microprocessors

The security of pretty much every computer on the planet has just gotten a lot worse, and the only real solution -- which of course is not a solution -- is to throw them all away and buy new ones. On Wednesday, researchers just announced a series of major security vulnerabilities in the...

Carbon Black Solutions Currently Compatible With Major OS Vendor Patches on Meltdown & Spectre

Recently, researchers have released details on two classes of vulnerabilities in modern CPU hardware. These vulnerabilities affect unprecedented numbers of systems and are some of the more difficult issues to address in recent history. These vulnerabilities, dubbed Meltdown and Spectre, may be...

How to Protect your Device from Meltdown and Spectre?

By Waqas The devastating discovery about security flaws namely Meltdown and Spectre This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How to Protect your Device from Meltdown and Spectre?...

This Week in Security News

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. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...

SUSE-SU-2018:0031-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. This update adds mitigations for various side channel attacks against modern CPUs that could disclose content of otherwise unreadable memory bnc1068032. - CVE-2017-5753 / 'SpectreAttack': Local...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

The openSUSE Leap 42.3 kernel was updated to 4.4.104 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 attacker...

Meltdown and Spectre Flaws Collateral Damage to OS & Cloud Services Unavoidable

By Waqas Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities haunting users and Tech Giants worldwide This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Meltdown and Spectre Flaws Collateral Damage to OS Cloud Services Unavoidable...

BSA-2018-522

Security Advisory ID : BSA-2018-522 Component : HW: CPU Revision : 1.2: Interim In total, security researchers disclosed three variants of CPU Data cache timing abuse. The variants lead to vulnerabilities that take advantage of the implementation of speculative execution of instructions on many...

Citrix XenServer Multiple Vulnerabilities (CTX231390) (Meltdown)(Spectre)

The version of Citrix XenServer running on the remote host is missing a security hotfix. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid105617; scriptversion"1.12";...

Fedora 26 : kernel (2018-8ed5eff2c0)

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...

Debian DSA-4078-1 : linux - security update (Meltdown)

Multiple researchers have discovered a vulnerability in Intel processors, enabling an attacker controlling an unprivileged process to read memory from arbitrary addresses, including from the kernel and all other processes running on the system. This specific attack has been named Meltdown and is...

CentOS 6 : kernel (CESA-2018:0008) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. 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 each vulnerability from th...

Exploit for Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Intel Atom_C

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[SECURITY] [DSA 4078-1] linux security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-4078-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Yves-Alexis Perez January 04, 2018 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

CPU Side-Channel Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities

On January 3, 2018, researchers disclosed three vulnerabilities that take advantage of the implementation of speculative execution of instructions on many modern microprocessor architectures to perform side-channel information disclosure attacks. These vulnerabilities could allow an unprivileged...