kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-696.30.1.OL6 - Update genkey bug 25599697 2.6.32-696.30.1 - x86 x86/kvm: fix CPUID7EDX word 18 mask Jan Stancek 1566893 1566899 CVE-2018-3639 2.6.32-696.29.1 - x86 x86/specctrl: Fix late microcode problem with AMD Waiman Long 1566893 1566899 CVE-2018-3639 - x86 x86/specctrl: Clean up entry...

kernel security update

3.10.0-862.3.2.OL7 - Oracle Linux certificates Alexey Petrenko - Oracle Linux RHCK Module Signing Key was compiled into kernel [email protected] - Update x509.genkey bug 24817676 3.10.0-862.3.2 - x86 specctrl: Fix late microcode problem with AMD Waiman Long 1566904...

USN-3651-1 qemu update

Ken Johnson and Jann Horn independently discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution of a memory read may allow unauthorized memory reads via sidechannel attacks. An attacker in the guest could use this to expose sensitive guest information, including kernel memory. This update...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security update

An update for kernel-rt 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...

CVE-2018-3640

Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and that perform speculative reads of system registers may allow unauthorized disclosure of system parameters to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis, aka Rogue System Register Read RSRE, Variant 3a...

Microsoft Guidance for Speculative Store Bypass

Executive summary On January 3, 2018, Microsoft released an advisory and security updates related to a newly-discovered class of hardware vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown involving speculative execution side channels that affect AMD, ARM, and Intel CPUs to varying degrees. On May 21s...

Microsoft Guidance for Rogue System Register Read

Executive Summary On January 3, 2018, Microsoft released an advisory and security updates related to a newly discovered class of hardware vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown involving speculative execution side channels that affect AMD, ARM, and Intel CPUs to varying degrees. On May 21,...

KLA11030 Speculative Store Bypass and Rogue System Register Read vulnerabilities in Microsoft Surface Products

On January 3, 2018, Microsoft released advisories and security updates related to a recently discovered class of hardware vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown that affect AMD, ARM, and Intel CPUs. On May 21, 2018, Intel announced the Rogue System Registry Read vulnerability. Also a new...

Microsoft Issues More Spectre Updates For Intel CPUs

Microsoft has released additional Windows 10 mitigations for the Spectre side-channel flaw revealed in January, with an expanded lineup of firmware microcode updates for Intel CPUs that include the Broadwell and Haswell chipsets. The company released two Windows Update packages addressing Spectre...

AMD Rolls Out Spectre Fixes

AMD said that CPU firmware and Windows 10 patches are now available to safeguard its products against the Spectre security flaw. Mark Papermaster, senior vice president and chief technology officer at AMD, said in a Tuesday post that Spectre fixes are available for AMD customers, who can download...

Intel SGX Update and Attestation Key Recovery - US

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-15184 Potential Impact: Elevation of Privilege / Information Disclosure Severity: High Scope of Impact: Industry Wide CVE Identifier: CVE-2017-5691 Summary Description: Intel has discovered a vulnerability that could impact the security of Intel® Software Guard...

Intel Halts Spectre Fixes On Older Chips, Citing Limited Ecosystem Support

Intel has halted patches for an array of older chips that would protect them against the Spectre vulnerability, according to a recent microcode update. The microcode update shows that its older products – including Wolfdale, Bloomfield, Clarksfield, Gulftown, Harpertown, Jasper Forest, SoFIA 3GR,...

Intel Admits It Won't Be Possible to Fix Spectre (V2) Flaw in Some Processors

As speculated by the researcher who disclosed Meltdown and Spectre flaws in Intel processors, some of the Intel processors will not receive patches for the Spectre variant 2 side-channel analysis attack In a recent microcode revision guidance PDF, Intel admits that it would not be possible to...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : intel-microcode update (USN-3531-3)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3531-3 advisory. Jann Horn discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and branch prediction may allow unauthorized memory reads via sidechannel...

USN-3531-3: intel-microcode update

Jann Horn discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and branch prediction may allow unauthorized memory reads via sidechannel attacks. This flaw is known as Spectre. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information, including kernel memory. CVE-2017-5715 This...

USN-3531-3 intel-microcode update

Jann Horn discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and branch prediction may allow unauthorized memory reads via sidechannel attacks. This flaw is known as Spectre. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information, including kernel memory. CVE-2017-5715 This...

MGASA-2018-0176 Updated microcode packages fix security vulnerabilities

This update provides new microcode fixes and mitigations for Spectre CVE-2017-5715 for many Intel CPUs produced in the last 5 years. So far the Intel microcode updates are for several processors from many of Intel Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake, Gemini Lake, Apollo Lake,...

Updated microcode packages fix security vulnerabilities

This update provides new microcode fixes and mitigations for Spectre CVE-2017-5715 for many Intel CPUs produced in the last 5 years. So far the Intel microcode updates are for several processors from many of Intel Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake, Gemini Lake, Apollo Lake,...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : ucode-intel (SUSE-SU-2018:0708-1) (Spectre)

This update for ucode-intel fixes the following issues: The Intel CPU microcode version was updated to version 20180312. This update enables the IBPB+IBRS based mitigations of the Spectre v2 flaws boo1085207 CVE-2017-5715 - New Platforms - BDX-DE EGW A0 6-56-5:10 e000009 - SKX B1 6-55-3:97 100014...

openSUSE Security Update : ucode-intel (openSUSE-2018-266) (Spectre)

This update for ucode-intel fixes the following issues : The Intel CPU microcode version was updated to version 20180312. This update enables the IBPB+IBRS based mitigations of the Spectre v2 flaws boo1085207 CVE-2017-5715 - New Platforms - BDX-DE EGW A0 6-56-5:10 e000009 - SKX B1 6-55-3:97 10001...