RHEL 8 : microcode_ctl (RHSA-2020:5085)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:5085 advisory. Security Fixes: hw: Information disclosure issue in Intel SGX via RAPL interface CVE-2020-8695 hw: Vector Register Leakage-Active...

RHEL 7 : microcode_ctl (RHSA-2020:5083)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:5083 advisory. Security Fixes: hw: Information disclosure issue in Intel SGX via RAPL interface CVE-2020-8695 hw: Vector Register Leakage-Active...

CVE-2020-8695

A vulnerability was found in Intel's implementation of RAPL Running Average Power Limit. An attacker with a local account could query the power management functionality to intelligently infer SGX enclave computation values by measuring power usage in the RAPL subsystem. Mitigation Until a firmwar...

Intel® SGX DCAP Software Advisory

Summary: A potential security vulnerability in the Intel® Software Guard Extensions SGX Datacenter Attestation Primitives DCAP software may allow denial of service. Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2020-8766 Description...

Intel Adds Memory Encryption, Firmware Security to Ice Lake Chips

Intel’s third-generation Xeon Scalable server processors, code-named Ice Lake, will be rolled out with new security upgrades that the chip giant claims will better protect devices from firmware attacks. The upcoming chips are based on Ice Lake, Intel’s 10nm CPU microarchitecture, which was first...

Information Disclosure

Arm Mbed TLS is vulnerable to Information Disclosure. An attacker that can get precise enough side-channel measurements can recover the long-term ECDSA private key by 1 reconstructing the projective coordinate of the result of scalar multiplication by exploiting side channels in the conversion to...

CVE-2019-18619

Incorrect parameter validation in the synaTee component of Synaptics WBF drivers using an SGX enclave all versions prior to 2019-11-15 allows a local user to execute arbitrary code in the enclave that can compromise confidentiality of enclave data via APIs that accept invalid pointers...

Code injection

Incorrect parameter validation in the synaTee component of Synaptics WBF drivers using an SGX enclave all versions prior to 2019-11-15 allows a local user to execute arbitrary code in the enclave that can compromise confidentiality of enclave data via APIs that accept invalid pointers...

CVE-2019-18619

The CVE-2019-18619 entry concerns the synaTee component of Synaptics Fingerprint (WBF) drivers that use Intel SGX. All versions prior to 2019-11-15 are affected. The root cause is incorrect parameter validation that allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code inside the SGX enclave by passi...

CVE-2019-18619

Incorrect parameter validation in the synaTee component of Synaptics WBF drivers using an SGX enclave all versions prior to 2019-11-15 allows a local user to execute arbitrary code in the enclave that can compromise confidentiality of enclave data via APIs that accept invalid pointers...

openSUSE Security Update : nasm (openSUSE-2020-954)

This update for nasm fixes the following issues : nasm was updated to version 2.14.02. This allows building of Mozilla Firefox 78ESR and also contains lots of bugfixes, security fixes and improvements. - Fix crash due to multiple errors or warnings during the code generation pass if a list file i...

Security update for nasm (moderate)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for nasm Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:0952-1 Rating: moderate References: 1084631 1086186 1086227 1086228 1090519 1090840 1106878 1107592 1107594 1108404 1115758 1115774 1115795 1173538 Cross-References: CVE-2018-1000667 CVE-2018-10016 CVE-2018-10254...

HPSBHF03675 rev. 1 - Synaptics® Fingerprint Drivers that use SGX

Potential Security Impact Arbitrary Code Execution Source: HP, HP Product Security Response Team PSRT Reported By: Synaptics ® VULNERABILITY SUMMARY Synaptics has notified HP of a potential security vulnerability in certain versions of Synaptics Fingerprint Sensor Drivers using Intel® Software...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : nasm (SUSE-SU-2020:1843-1)

This update for nasm fixes the following issues : nasm was updated to version 2.14.02. This allows building of Mozilla Firefox 78ESR and also contains lots of bugfixes, security fixes and improvements. Fix crash due to multiple errors or warnings during the code generation pass if a list file is...

USN-4385-2: Intel Microcode regression | Cloud Foundry

Severity Medium Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 14.04 Canonical Ubuntu 16.04 Description USN-4385-1 provided updated Intel Processor Microcode. Unfortunately, that update prevented certain processors in the Intel Skylake family 064EH from booting successfully...

USN-4390-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities | Cloud Foundry

Severity Medium Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 16.04 Description It was discovered that the F2FS file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly perform bounds checking on xattrs in some situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to expose...

CVE-2020-0543 CROSSTALK

Incomplete cleanup from specific special register read operations in some Intel® Processors may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access. Recent assessments: busterb at June 15, 2020 8:18pm UTC reported: This continues to bury SGX as an actual...

Special Register Buffer Data Sampling Advisory

Summary: A potential security vulnerability in some Intel® Processors may allow information disclosure. Intel is releasing firmware updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability. Vulnerability Details: CVEID: CVE-2020-0543 Description: Incomplete cleanup from specific special register read...

Another Intel Speculative Execution Vulnerability

Remember Spectre and Meltdown? Back in early 2018, I wrote: Spectre and Meltdown are pretty catastrophic vulnerabilities, but they only affect the confidentiality of data. Now that they -- and the research into the Intel ME vulnerability -- have shown researchers where to look, more is coming --...

Intel CPUs Vulnerable to New 'SGAxe' and 'CrossTalk' Side-Channel Attacks

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two distinct attacks that could be exploited against modern Intel processors to leak sensitive information from the CPU's trusted execution environments TEE. Called SGAxe, the first of the flaws is an evolution of the previously uncovered CacheOut attack...