MGASA-2018-0373 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.69 and adds additional fixes for the L1TF and Spectre security issues. It also fixes at least the following security issues: Memory leak in the irdabind function in net/irda/afirda.c and later in drivers/staging/irda/net/afirda.c in the Linux kerne...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kvm (SUSE-SU-2018:2650-1) (Spectre)

This update for kvm fixes the following security issues : CVE-2018-12617: qmpguestfileread had an integer overflow that could have been exploited by sending a crafted QMP command including guest-file-read with a large count value to the agent via the listening socket causing DoS bsc1098735...

January 30, 2018 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “FDR” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! January 30, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: The Three Rs of Today’s...

Fedora 26 : 2:microcode_ctl (2018-6b319763ab)

Update to upstream 2.1-15. 20180108. Includes fix for Spectre. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing...

Fedora 27 : firefox (2018-276558ff6f)

Update to 57.0.4 - Security fixes to address the Meltdown and Spectre timing attacks - https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/01/03/mitigations -landing-new-class-timing-attack/ - Require new nss 3.34 fixed rhbz1531031 - Disabled ARM on all Fedoras due to rhbz1523912 Note that Tenable Network...