Debian DSA-4120-1 : linux - security update (Meltdown) (Spectre)

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks. - CVE-2017-5715 Multiple researchers have discovered a vulnerability in various processors supporting speculative execution, enabling an attacker...

Intel Issues Updated Spectre Firmware Fixes For Newer Processors

Intel has issued updated microcode to help protect its newer processors from Spectre security exploits. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company’s new microcode updates – which impact its newer chip platforms, such as Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake, and Skylake – have been released to OEM customers and...

hw: cpu: speculative execution permission faults handling

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 exploited. Variant...

Intel Releases New Spectre Patch Update for Skylake Processors

After leaving million of devices at risk of hacking and then rolling out broken patches, Intel has now released a new batch of security patches only for its Skylake processors to address one of the Spectre vulnerabilities Variant 2. For those unaware, Spectre Variant 1, Variant 2 and Meltdown...

USN-3548-2: Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerability

USN-3548-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 17.10. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 17.10 for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Jay Vosburgh discovered a logic error in the x86-64 syscall entry implementation in the Linux...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20180125) (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...

Unbootable state for AMD devices in Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2

Unbootable state for AMD devices in Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 Summary This update resolves the following issue: Microsoft has received reports of some customers on a small subset of older AMD processors getting into an unbootable state after you install January 3, 2018—KB4056898...

Meltdown and Spectre Attacks | Cloud Foundry

Severity Advisory/Critical Description Meltdown and Spectre exploit critical vulnerabilities in modern processors. These hardware bugs allow programs to steal data which is currently processed on the computer. While programs are typically not permitted to read data from other programs, a maliciou...

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Meltdown / Spectre Mitigation Is a Work in Progress

Since researchers disclosed the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities on Jan. 3, vendors and IT departments have been consumed trying to figure out how to properly address the potentially devastating effects of these kernel-level bugs. By now, one thing we know for sure is that dealing with the...

Untrusted search path in Intel Graphics Driver allows unprivileged user to elevate privileges via local access

Summary: Untrusted Path which can potentially lead to an elevation of privilege. Reference CVE-2017-5696. Description: Older versions 1 of the some Intel® Graphics Drivers for Windows 2 Code Branches contain a potentially untrusted search path which may allow a local attacker to execute code with...

New Mirai Okiru Botnet targets devices running widely-used ARC Processors

The cybersecurity threat landscape has never been more extensive and is most likely to grow exponentially in 2018. Although the original creators of Mirai DDoS botnet have already been arrested and jailed, the variants of the infamous IoT malware are still in the game due to the availability of i...

MGASA-2018-0075 Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update provides the upstream 4.4.111 and fixes several security issues. The most important fix in this update is for the security issue named "Meltdown" that is fixed in theese kernels by enabling kernel Page Table Isolation KTPI. Note that according to AMD, this issue does not...

Updated microcode packages fix security vulnerabilities

This update provides 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 the Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake, Gemini Lake, Apollo Lake, Crystal Well and I...

MGASA-2018-0077 Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update is based on the upstream 4.14.13 and fixes several security issues. The most important fix in this update is for the security issue named "Meltdown" that is fixed in theese kernels by enabling kernel Page Table Isolation KTPI. Note that according to AMD, this issue does not...

MGASA-2018-0078 Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update provided the upstream 4.14.13 and fixes several security issues. The most important fix in this update is for the security issue named "Meltdown" that is fixed in theese kernels by enabling kernel Page Table Isolation KTPI. Note that according to AMD, this issue does not...

Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.13 and fixes several security issues. The most important fix in this update is for the security issue named "Meltdown" that is fixed in theese kernels by enabling kernel Page Table Isolation KPTI. Note that according to AMD, this issue does not...

Updated kernel-tmb packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-tmb update is based on the upstream 4.4.111 and fixes several security issues. The most important fix in this update is for the security issue named "Meltdown" that is fixed in theese kernels by enabling kernel Page Table Isolation KTPI. Note that according to AMD, this issue does not...