Updated microcode packages fix security vulnerabilities

This microcode update provides the Intel 20180807 microcode release that adds the processor microcode side of fixes and mitigations for the now publically known security issue affected Intel processors called L1 Terminal Fault L1TF for most Intel processors since Intel Core gen2: Systems with...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-4279-1)

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...

Debian DSA-4273-1 : intel-microcode - security update (Spectre)

This update ships updated CPU microcode for some types of Intel CPUs and provides SSBD support needed to address 'Spectre v4' and fixes for'Spectre v3a'. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-4273...

[SECURITY] [DSA 4273-1] intel-microcode security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-4273-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff August 16, 2018 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Speculation Attack Against Intel's SGX

Another speculative-execution attack against Intel's SGX. At a high level, SGX is a new feature in modern Intel CPUs which allows computers to protect users' data even if the entire system falls under the attacker's control. While it was previously believed that SGX is resilient to speculative...

DSA-4273-1 intel-microcode - security update

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Security Bulletin: IBM QRadar SIEM has released 7.3.1 Patch 4, and 7.2.8 Patch 13 in response to the vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown.

Summary IBM has released the following 7.3.1 Patch 4, and 7.2.8 Patch 13 for IBM QRadar SIEM in response to CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715 and CVE-2017-5754 Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2017-5753 CVEID: CVE-2017-5715 CVEID: CVE-2017-5754 Affected Products and Versions IBM QRadar SIEM 7.3.0 –...

Foreshadow Attacks — 3 New Intel CPU Side-Channel Flaws Discovered

2018 has been quite a tough year for Intel. While the chip-maker giant is still dealing with Meltdown and Spectre processor vulnerabilities, yet another major speculative execution flaw has been revealed in Intel's Core and Xeon lines of processors that may leave users vulnerable to cyber-attacks...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-4273-2)

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...

CVE-2018-3615

Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and Intel software guard extensions Intel SGX may allow unauthorized disclosure of information residing in the L1 data cache from an enclave to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis...

CVE-2018-3646

Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and address translations may allow unauthorized disclosure of information residing in the L1 data cache to an attacker with local user access with guest OS privilege via a terminal page fault and a side-channel analysis...

HPSBHF03590 rev. 2 - L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF)

Potential Security Impact Unauthorized exposure of privileged data from memory. Source: HP, HP Product Security Response Team PSRT, Intel Reported By: Intel VULNERABILITY SUMMARY A new speculative execution side channel variant has been discovered called L1 Terminal Fault L1TF. There are no repor...

CVE-2016-8637

A local information disclosure issue was found in dracut before 045 when generating initramfs images with world-readable permissions when 'early cpio' is used, such as when including microcode updates. Local attacker can use this to obtain sensitive information from these files, such as encryptio...

Information disclosure

A local information disclosure issue was found in dracut before 045 when generating initramfs images with world-readable permissions when 'early cpio' is used, such as when including microcode updates. Local attacker can use this to obtain sensitive information from these files, such as encryptio...

CVE-2016-8637

A local information disclosure issue was found in dracut before 045 when generating initramfs images with world-readable permissions when 'early cpio' is used, such as when including microcode updates. Local attacker can use this to obtain sensitive information from these files, such as encryptio...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-8637

A local information disclosure issue was found in dracut before 045 when generating initramfs images with world-readable permissions when 'early cpio' is used, such as when including microcode updates. Local attacker can use this to obtain sensitive information from these files, such as encryptio...

CVE-2016-8637

A local information disclosure issue was found in dracut before 045 when generating initramfs images with world-readable permissions when 'early cpio' is used, such as when including microcode updates. Local attacker can use this to obtain sensitive information from these files, such as encryptio...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-8637

A local information disclosure issue was found in dracut before 045 when generating initramfs images with world-readable permissions when 'early cpio' is used, such as when including microcode updates. Local attacker can use this to obtain sensitive information from these files, such as encryptio...

CVE-2016-8637

A local information disclosure issue was found in dracut before 045 when generating initramfs images with world-readable permissions when 'early cpio' is used, such as when including microcode updates. Local attacker can use this to obtain sensitive information from these files, such as encryptio...

[slackware-security] Slackware 14.2 kernel

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 14.2 to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/linux-4.4.144/: Upgraded. This kernel update enables additional mitigations for spectrev2 IBPB and IBRSFW. It also enables reporting on the...