Multiple Intel Processors Generations Hit by Serious Security Flaw

By Waqas Almost all Intel Processors Generations are impacted by the flaw while Intel This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Multiple Intel Processors Generations Hit by Serious Security Flaw...

Guidance to mitigate speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities

NOTE This advisory was revised on July 10, 2018. Some content has been removed for simplicity and because it is no longer relevant. You can view the archived content for ADV180002 in the FAQ section following the Affected Products table. Executive Summary Microsoft is aware of a new publicly...

January 3, 2018—KB4056898 (Security-only update)

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January 4, 2018—KB4056894 (Monthly Rollup)

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Description of the security update for SQL Server 2016 SP1 CU7: January 3, 2018

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January 8, 2018—KB4056895 (Monthly Rollup)

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Huge Flaws Affect Nearly Every Modern Device; Patch Could Hit CPU Performance

UPDATE: Researchers have finally disclosed complete technical details of two kernel side-channel attacks, Meltdown and Spectre—which affect not only Intel but also systems and devices running AMD, ARM processors—allowing attackers to steal sensitive data from the system memory. The first week of...

PT-2018-1445

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Intel microprocessors affected versions not specified Description The issue concerns systems with microprocessors that use speculative execution and address translations, potentially allowing unauthorized disclosure of information from the L1...

Meltdown and Spectre Side-Channel Vulnerabilities

US-CERT is aware of a set of security vulnerabilities—known as Meltdown and Spectre—that affect modern computer processors. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to obtain access to sensitive information. Users and administrators are encouraged to review Vulnerability Note...

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...

Forever 21 Says PoS Systems Exposed Customer Data for 8 Months

Fashion retailer Forever 21 confirmed a breach made public in November resulted in the theft of credit card data belonging to an undisclosed number of customers. The company had stated that a lack of encryption used on some of its point-of-sales payment terminals could have resulted in unauthoriz...

Updated openssl packages fix security vulnerabilities

OpenSSL 1.0.2 starting from version 1.0.2b introduced an "error state" mechanism. The intent was that if a fatal error occurred during a handshake then OpenSSL would move into the error state and would immediately fail if you attempted to continue the handshake. This works as designed for the...

Virtuozzo 7 : readykernel-patch (VZA-2017-111)

According to the version of the vzkernel package and the readykernel-patch installed, the Virtuozzo installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - dccpdisconnect set the socket state to DCCPCLOSED but did not properly free some of the resources associated with th...

Virtuozzo 7 : readykernel-patch (VZA-2017-110)

According to the version of the vzkernel package and the readykernel-patch installed, the Virtuozzo installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - dccpdisconnect set the socket state to DCCPCLOSED but did not properly free some of the resources associated with th...

SUSE-SU-2017:3114-1 Recommended update for tboot

This update for tboot provides the following fix: Security issue fixed: - CVE-2014-5118: tboot: bypass of measured boot bsc889339 Bug fixes: - Fixed failed trusted boot on some systems like Intel Xeon 'Purley 8s' processors. The following error message showed: 'TBOOT: wait-for-sipi loop timed-out...

Carry Propagation

OpenSSL is vulnerable to a carry propagation issue with the x8664 Montgomery squaring procedure. This attack can be carried out against unpatched systems using a target private key with persistent DH parameters and a private key which is shared with multiple clients. This could in some...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-3736

There is a carry propagating bug in the x8664 Montgomery squaring procedure in OpenSSL before 1.0.2m and 1.1.0 before 1.1.0g. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests that attacks against RSA and DSA as a result of this defect would be very difficult to perform and are not believed likely...

Intel SPI Write Protection Local Security Bypass Vulnerability

Intel NUC7i3BNK, etc. are CPU Central Processing Unit products of Intel Corporation USA. A local security bypass vulnerability exists in Intel SPI Write Protection, which can be exploited by a local attacker to bypass certain security restrictions...

USN-3385-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Andrey Konovalov discovered a race condition in the UDP Fragmentation Offload UFO code in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. CVE-2017-1000112 Andrey Konovalov discovered a race condition in AFPACKET socket option handling code...

USN-3378-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Fan Wu and Shixiong Zhao discovered a race condition between inotify events and vfs rename operations in the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash or execute arbitrary code. CVE-2017-7533 It was discovered that the Linux kernel did n...