Microsoft Windows - 'nt!NtQueryInformationProcess (information class 76_ QueryProcessEnergyValues)' Kernel Stack Memory Disclosure

/ We have discovered that the nt!NtQueryInformationProcess system call invoked with the 76 information class discloses portions of uninitialized kernel stack memory to user-mode clients. The specific information class is handled by an internal nt!PsQueryProcessEnergyValues function. While we don'...

SUSE-SU-2018:0040-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3 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: Local attackers on systems...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:0031-1) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

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...

VMSA-2018-0004:VMware vSphere, Workstation and Fusion updates add Hypervisor-Assisted Guest Remediation for speculative execution issue

VMSA-2018-0004.3 VMware vSphere, Workstation and Fusion updates add Hypervisor-Assisted Guest Mitigations for speculative execution issue VMware Security Advisory VMware Security Advisory Advisory ID: VMSA-2018-0005 VMware Security Advisory Severity: Critical VMware Security Advisory Synopsis:...

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...

Security Bulletin: NVIDIA Jetson TX1, Jetson TK1, and Tegra K1 L4T Security Updates for CPU Speculative Side Channel Vulnerabilities

Jetson and Tegra L4T response to CPU speculative side channel vulnerabilities - CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5754 Bulletin Summary NVIDIA is providing an initial security update to mitigate aspects of Google Project Zero's January 3, 2018, publication of novel information disclosure...

Security Bulletin: NVIDIA Jetson TX2 L4T Security Updates for CPU Speculative Side Channel Vulnerabilities

Jetson L4T response to CPU speculative side channel vulnerabilities - CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5754 Bulletin Summary NVIDIA is providing an initial security update to mitigate aspects of Google Project Zero's January 3, 2018, publication of novel information disclosure attacks that...

CentOS 7 : kernel (CESA-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...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2018:0008 centos6

Check the version of kernel 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 scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882822";...

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

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2. 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 t...

SUSE-SU-2018:0011-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

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...

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...

Security Bulletin: NVIDIA SHIELD TV Security Updates for CPU Speculative Side Channel Vulnerabilities

NVIDIA SHIELD TV Response to CPU Speculative Side Channel Vulnerabilities - CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5754 Bulletin Summary NVIDIA is providing an initial security update to mitigate aspects of Google Project Zero's January 3, 2018, publication of novel information disclosure attacks...

Security Bulletin: NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet Security Updates for CPU Speculative Side Channel Vulnerabilities

NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet Response to CPU Speculative Side Channel Vulnerabilities - CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5754 Go to NVIDIA Product Security. Bulletin Summary NVIDIA is providing an initial security update to mitigate aspects of Google Project Zero's January 3, 2018, publication of...

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...

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:...

PT-2018-1446

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Intel processors versions prior to the fixed version Huawei VRP affected versions not specified vCenter Server affected versions not specified ESXi affected versions not specified Workstation affected versions not specified Fusion affected...

Transport Layer Security (TLS) Vulnerability

CERT Coordination Center CERT/CC has released information on a Transport Layer Security TLS vulnerability. Exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to access sensitive information. The TLS vulnerability is also known as Return of Bleichenbacher's Oracle Threat ROBOT. ROBOT allow...

Hashicorp vagrant-vmware-fusion 5.0.1 - Local Privilege Escalation

I recently blogged about how the installation process of version 5.0.0 of this plugin could be hihacked by a local attacker or malware in order to escalate privileges to root. Hashicorp pushed some mitigations for this issue fairly quickly but unfortunately 5.0.1 is still exploitable with a...