SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:0784-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : CVE-2019-2024: A use-after-free when disconnecting a source was fixed which could lead to crashes. bnc1129179. CVE-2019-9213: expanddownwards in mm/mmap.c lacks a che...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:0765-1) (Spectre)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed : CVE-2018-20669: Missing access control checks in ioctl of gpu/drm/i915 driver were fixed which might have lead to information leaks. bnc1122971. CVE-2019-3459,...

VSHG - Hardware resistance & enhanced security for GnuPG

VSHG aims to provide a memory / hardware resistant reinforcement to GnuPG's standared s2k key-derivation-function + a simplified interface for symmetric encryption . About VSHG VSHG Very secure hash generator is a standalone Addon for GnuPG Gnu privacy guard . It is written as a shell script and ...

CVE-2019-7308

kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel before 4.20.6 performs undesirable out-of-bounds speculation on pointer arithmetic in various cases, including cases of different branches with different state or limits to sanitize, leading to side-channel attacks...

CVE-2019-7308

kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel before 4.20.6 performs undesirable out-of-bounds speculation on pointer arithmetic in various cases, including cases of different branches with different state or limits to sanitize, leading to side-channel attacks...

CVE-2019-7308

kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel before 4.20.6 performs undesirable out-of-bounds speculation on pointer arithmetic in various cases, including cases of different branches with different state or limits to sanitize, leading to side-channel attacks...

CVE-2019-7308

kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel before 4.20.6 performs undesirable out-of-bounds speculation on pointer arithmetic in various cases, including cases of different branches with different state or limits to sanitize, leading to side-channel attacks...

CVE-2019-7308

CVE-2019-7308 affects the Linux kernel’s BPF verifier in kernel/bpf/verifier.c prior to 4.20.6. The issue is undesirable out-of-bounds speculation on pointer arithmetic across branches with different state/limits, enabling potential side-channel attacks. Public sources in connected documents cons...

CVE-2019-7308

kernel/bpf/verifier.c in the Linux kernel before 4.20.6 performs undesirable out-of-bounds speculation on pointer arithmetic in various cases, including cases of different branches with different state or limits to sanitize, leading to side-channel attacks...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm-rhev security update

An update for qemu-kvm-rhev is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 Kilo for RHEL 7.4 EUS. 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...

Information Disclosure

Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and address translations are vulnerable to information disclosure. An L1TF issue allows an unprivileged attacker to read privileged memory of the kernel or other processes by conducting targeted cache side-channel attacks...

Fedora 28 : libtomcrypt (2018-9d667bdff8)

Fix Side Channel Based ECDSA Key Extraction CVE-2018-12437 PR 408 - Fix potential stack overflow when DER flexi-decoding CVE-2018-0739 PR 373 - Fix two-key 3DES PR 390 - Fix accelerated CTR mode PR 359 - Fix Fortuna PRNG PR 363 - Fix compilation on platforms where cc doesn't point to gcc PR 382 -...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : openssl-1_1 (SUSE-SU-2018:2956-1)

This update for openssl-11 to 1.1.0i fixes the following issues : These security issues were fixed : CVE-2018-0732: During key agreement in a TLS handshake using a DHE based ciphersuite a malicious server could have sent a very large prime value to the client. This caused the client to spend an...

Cryptocurrency Wallet Hacks Spark Dustup

LEIPZIG, GERMANY – Hardware based cryptocurrency wallets may not be as secure as promised. That’s the judgement of Dmitry Nedospasov, Thomas Roth and Josh Datko who together presented their research at a session here at the 35c3 conference called “wallet.fail.” In the talk the researchers...

Debian DSA-4355-1 : openssl1.0 - security update

Several local side channel attacks and a denial of service via large Diffie-Hellman parameters were discovered in OpenSSL, a Secure Sockets Layer toolkit. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-4355...

[SECURITY] [DSA 4355-1] openssl1.0 security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-4355-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff December 19, 2018 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Security Bulletin: IBM Security Guardium is affected by a Using Components (microcode_ctl) with Known Vulnerabilities vulnerability

Summary IBM Security Guardium has addressed the following vulnerabilities. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2017-5715 DESCRIPTION: Intel Haswell Xeon, AMD PRO and ARM Cortex A57 CPUs could allow a local authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a branch target injection in...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-4355-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 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...

Security update for compat-openssl098 (moderate)

This update for compat-openssl098 fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2018-0734: Fixed timing vulnerability in DSA signature generation bsc1113652. - CVE-2018-5407: Fixed elliptic curve scalar multiplication timing attack defenses bsc1113534. - CVE-2016-8610: Adjusted current...

in(Secure) messaging apps — How side-channel attacks can compromise privacy in WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal

This blog post is authored by Vitor Ventura. Executive summary Messaging applications have been around since the inception of the internet. But recently, due to the increased awareness around mass surveillance in some countries, more users are installing end-to-end encrypted apps dubbed "secure...