[Guide] How to Protect Your Devices Against Meltdown and Spectre Attacks

Recently uncovered two huge processor vulnerabilities called Meltdown and Spectre have taken the whole world by storm, while vendors are rushing out to patch the vulnerabilities in its products. The issues apply to all modern processors and affect nearly all operating systems Windows, Linux,...

Impact of Meltdown and Spectre on Akamai

Overview On Wednesday, January 3rd, researchers from Google Project Zero, Cyberus Technology, Graz University of Technology, and other organizations released details about a pair of related vulnerabilities, dubbed Meltdown and Spectre. These vulnerabilities appear to affect all modern processors...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Advanced 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...

Fixing the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities

Two days ago, Graz University of Technology published a paper describing a pair of attacks on common microprocessors. The underlying vulnerability affects Intel, AMD, and ARM processors. All contemporary microprocessors pre-execute instructions. In other words, the vulnerability bypasses address...

Vendors Share Patch Updates on Spectre and Meltdown Mitigation Efforts

Intel, Amazon, Microsoft and others are playing down concerns over the impact of the massive Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities affecting computers, servers and mobile devices worldwide. The two flaws, Spectre and Meltdown, are far reaching and impact a wide range of microprocessors used in the...

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...

Spectre and Meltdown Attacks

After a week or so of rumors, everyone is now reporting about the Spectre and Meltdown attacks against pretty much every modern processor out there. These are side-channel attacks where one process can spy on other processes. They affect computers where an untrusted browser window can execute cod...

SUSE-SU-2018:0010-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3 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 attackers...

Processor Vulnerabilities – Meltdown and Spectre

UPDATE 1/4/2018: Qualys has released several QIDs for detecting missing patches for these vulnerabilities. UPDATE 1/5/2018: Pre-built AssetView dashboards to visualize impact and remediation progress. Vulnerabilities potentially impacting all major processor vendors were disclosed today by Google...

Opera mitigates critical CPU vulnerabilities

Security Opera mitigates critical CPU vulnerabilities Share January 4th, 2018 There is a lot of uncertainty right now about the impact of the hardware security issue named Meltdown. There will be a scheduled release of Opera which will contain a first set of workarounds as soon as the browser is...

Information about Meltdown and Spectre findings

Palo Alto Networks is aware of recent vulnerability disclosures, known as Meltdown and Spectre, that affect modern CPU architectures. At this time, our findings show that these vulnerabilities pose no increased risk to Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS devices. CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5753, and...

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...

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...

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...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20180103) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

Security Fixes : An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructions a commonly used performance optimization. There are three primary variants of the issue which differ in the way the speculative execution can be...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2018:0007) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

An update for kernel is now available 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 severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from 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...

Meltdown vulnerability in CPU processor kernel (CNVD-2018-00304)

CPU hardware is a set of firmware that runs in the CPU Central Processing Unit to manage and control the CPU. A Meltdown vulnerability exists in the CPU processor kernel that "melts" the security boundaries implemented by the hardware, allowing low-privileged user-level applications to "cross the...

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...

Meltdown/Spectre Multiple Browsers Speculative Execution (CVE-2017-5715; CVE-2017-5753; CVE-2017-5754; CVE-2018-3639)

A CPU speculative execution vulnerability exists in multiple processors. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability using JavaScript code. Successful exploitation allows a remote attacker to read arbitrary virtual memory...