Scientific Linux Security Update : firefox on SL6.x, SL7.x i386/x86_64 (20180124)

This update upgrades Firefox to version 52.6.0 ESR. Security Fixes : - Multiple flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox...

Critical: Red Hat Security Advisory: firefox security update

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available...

SUSE-SU-2018:0180-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 realtime kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. This update adds mitigations for various side channel attacks against modern CPUs that could disclose content of otherwise unreadable memory bnc1068032. - CVE-2017-5753: Local attackers on syste...

Intel Halts Spectre/Meltdown Patching for Broadwell and Haswell Systems

Intel is advising OEMs and partners to halt patching for the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities amid numerous reports the updates are causing reboot issues on systems running the Broadwell and Haswell microprocessors. “We recommend that OEMs, cloud service providers, system manufacturers,...

RHEL 6 : qemu-kvm (RHSA-2018:0107) (Spectre)

An update for qemu-kvm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Advanced 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 fo...

Amazon Linux AMI : qemu-kvm (ALAS-2018-942) (Spectre)

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...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:0115-1) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 GA LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. This update adds mitigations for various side channel attacks against modern CPUs that could disclose content of otherwise unreadable memory bnc1068032. - CVE-2017-5753 / 'SpectreAttack': Local...

SUSE-SU-2018:0115-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 GA LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. This update adds mitigations for various side channel attacks against modern CPUs that could disclose content of otherwise unreadable memory bnc1068032. - CVE-2017-5753 / 'SpectreAttack': Local...

Real World Crypto 2018 (RWC 2018) brain dump

The 2018 edition of Real World Crypto RWC was in Zurich you can find the conference full program here.. I live in Switzerland so I was extremely happy about it. RWC is basically the best conference I ever attended and it will probably be so for a while. I almost risked to skip it due to flu but I...

CVE-2017-13218

Access to CNTVCTEL0 in Small Cell SoC, Snapdragon Automobile, Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear could be used for side channel attacks and this could lead to local information disclosure with no additional execution privileges needed in FSM9055, IPQ4019, IPQ8064, MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9635M,...

Information disclosure

Access to CNTVCTEL0 in Small Cell SoC, Snapdragon Automobile, Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear could be used for side channel attacks and this could lead to local information disclosure with no additional execution privileges needed in FSM9055, IPQ4019, IPQ8064, MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9635M,...

CVE-2017-13218

The CVE-2017-13218 entry documents a side-channel information-disclosure vulnerability caused by access to CNTVCT_EL0 in various ARM-based devices (e.g., Small Cell SoC, Snapdragon lines). Affected components include listed CPUs/SoCs (FSM9055, IPQ4019, IPQ8064, MDM9xxx, SD series, etc.) and relat...

CVE-2017-13218

Access to CNTVCTEL0 in Small Cell SoC, Snapdragon Automobile, Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear could be used for side channel attacks and this could lead to local information disclosure with no additional execution privileges needed in FSM9055, IPQ4019, IPQ8064, MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9635M,...

USN-3531-1: Intel Microcode update

It was discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and branch prediction may allow unauthorized memory reads via sidechannel attacks. This flaw is known as Spectre. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information, including kernel memory. CVE-2017-5715 This...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2018:0040-1) (BlueBorne) (KRACK) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. This update adds mitigations for various side channel attacks against modern CPUs that could disclose content of otherwise unreadable memory bnc1068032. - CVE-2017-5753: Local attackers on systems...

SUSE-SU-2018:0040-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. This update adds mitigations for various side channel attacks against modern CPUs that could disclose content of otherwise unreadable memory bnc1068032. - CVE-2017-5753: Local attackers on systems...

[ASA-201801-6] linux-lts: access restriction bypass

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201801-6 ========================================= Severity: High Date : 2018-01-08 CVE-ID : CVE-2017-5754 Package : linux-lts Type : access restriction bypass Remote : No Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-577 Summary ======= The package linux-lts before...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2018-3) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

The openSUSE Leap 42.2 kernel was updated to 4.4.104 to receive various security and bugfixes. This update adds mitigations for various side channel attacks against modern CPUs that could disclose content of otherwise unreadable memory bnc1068032. - CVE-2017-5753 / 'SpectreAttack': Local attacker...

Virtuozzo 6 : parallels-server-bm-release / vzkernel / etc (VZA-2018-002)

According to the versions of the parallels-server-bm-release / vzkernel / etc packages installed, the Virtuozzo installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - CVE-2017-5715 triggers the speculative execution by utilizing branch target injection. It relies on the...

RHEL 7 : linux-firmware (RHSA-2018:0053) (Spectre)

An update for linux-firmware is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Telco Extended Update Support, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a securi...