Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : OpenJDK 8 vulnerabilities (USN-4080-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4080-1 advisory. Keegan Ryan discovered that the ECC implementation in OpenJDK was not sufficiently resilient to side- channel attacks. An attacker could possibly use thi...

NewStart CGSL MAIN 4.05 : qemu-kvm Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2019-0133)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 4.05, has qemu-kvm packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - An out-of-bounds read access issue was found in the VGA display emulator built into the Quick emulator QEMU. It could occur while reading VGA memory to update...

NewStart CGSL MAIN 5.04 : dracut Vulnerability (NS-SA-2019-0016)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 5.04, has dracut packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability: - An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructions a commonly used performance...

NewStart CGSL MAIN 4.05 : kernel Vulnerability (NS-SA-2019-0125)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 4.05, has kernel packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability: - An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructions a commonly used performance...

CVE-2019-13377

The implementations of SAE and EAP-pwd in hostapd and wpasupplicant 2.x through 2.8 are vulnerable to side-channel attacks as a result of observable timing differences and cache access patterns when Brainpool curves are used. An attacker may be able to gain leaked information from a side-channel...

SWAPGS Attack — New Speculative Execution Flaw Affects All Modern Intel CPUs

A new variant of the Spectre Variant 1 side-channel vulnerability has been discovered that affects all modern Intel CPUs, and probably some AMD processors as well, which leverage speculative execution for high performance, Microsoft and Red Hat warned. Identified as CVE-2019-1125, the vulnerabili...

CVE-2019-13377

The implementations of SAE and EAP-pwd in hostapd and wpasupplicant 2.x through 2.8 are vulnerable to side-channel attacks as a result of observable timing differences and cache access patterns when Brainpool curves are used. An attacker may be able to gain leaked information from a side-channel...

Researchers Discover New Ways to Hack WPA3 Protected WiFi Passwords

The same team of cybersecurity researchers who discovered several severe vulnerabilities, collectively dubbed as Dragonblood, in the newly launched WPA3 WiFi security standard few months ago has now uncovered two more flaws that could allow attackers to hack WiFi passwords. WPA, or WiFi Protected...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4080-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 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...

USN-4080-1: OpenJDK 8 vulnerabilities

Keegan Ryan discovered that the ECC implementation in OpenJDK was not sufficiently resilient to side-channel attacks. An attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information. CVE-2019-2745 It was discovered that OpenJDK did not sufficiently validate serial streams before deserializing...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Extended Update Support. 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...

EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : wpa_supplicant (EulerOS-SA-2019-1779)

According to the version of the wpasupplicant package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - The implementations of SAE in hostapd and wpasupplicant are vulnerable to side channel attacks as a result of observable timing differences a...

EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : compat-openssl10 (EulerOS-SA-2019-1643)

According to the versions of the compat-openssl10 package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - During key agreement in a TLS handshake using a DHE based ciphersuite a malicious server can send a very large prime value to the clien...

OpenSSH Now Encrypts Secret Keys in Memory Against Side-Channel Attacks

In recent years, several groups of cybersecurity researchers have disclosed dozens of memory side-channel vulnerabilities in modern processors and DRAMs, like Rowhammer, RAMBleed, Spectre, and Meltdown. Have you ever noticed they all had at least one thing in common? That's OpenSSH. As a...

OpenSSH Now Encrypts Secret Keys in Memory Against Side-Channel Attacks

In recent years, several groups of cybersecurity researchers have disclosed dozens of memory side-channel vulnerabilities in modern processors and DRAMs, like Rowhammer, RAMBleed, Spectre, and Meltdown. Have you ever noticed they all had at least one thing in common? That's OpenSSH. As a...

Security Bulletin: IBM PureApplication Service is affected by vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-3639, CVE-2018-3640)

Summary IBM has released Version 2.2.5.3 for IBM PureApplication Service, which includes IBM OS Images for Red Hat Linux Systems, as well as AIX-based and Windows-based deployments, in response to CVE-2018-3639 and CVE-2018-3640. IBM PureApplication Service has addressed the following...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : OS Kernel and SMM mode L1 Terminal Fault vulnerability (K95275140)

The version of F5 Networks BIG-IP installed on the remote host is prior to 14.1.2.2 / 15.0.0. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the K95275140 advisory. - Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and address translations may allow unauthorized...

ZombieLoad Pioneer: The Story Behind Intel’s Latest Side Channel Flaw

The release of a new speculative execution vulnerability called ZombieLoad last week follows a similar disclosure path as Meltdown and Spectre. Threatpost caught up with one of the researchers behind the discovery of ZombieLoad to find out how. ZombieLoad was discovered and reported by Michael...

Information Disclosure

Linux kernel is vulnerable to information disclosure vulnerability. The vulnerability exists in an unknown code of the component Speculative Execution. An unprivileged attacker could use this flaw to read some of the memory contents of the kernel or other processes and/or cross guest/host...

Intel ZombieLoad Side-Channel Attack: 10 Takeaways

Intel on Tuesday revealed a new class of speculative execution vulnerabilities, dubbed Microarchitectural Data Sampling MDS, which impact all its modern CPUs. The flaws all ultimately depend on different ways of executing side channel attacks to siphon data from impacted systems – and result in...