CPU Side-Channel Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities: May 2018

On May 21, 2018, researchers disclosed two vulnerabilities that take advantage of the implementation of speculative execution of instructions on many modern microprocessor architectures to perform side-channel information disclosure attacks. These vulnerabilities could allow an unprivileged, loca...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security update

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2. 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 each vulnerability from t...

AMD / ARM / Intel - Speculative Execution Variant 4 Speculative Store Bypass

/ ======== Intro / Overview ======== After Michael Schwarz made some interesting observations, we started looking into variants other than the three already-known ones. I noticed that Intel's Optimization Manual says in section 2.4.4.5 "Memory Disambiguation": A load instruction micro-op may depe...

CVE-2018-3639

Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of all prior memory writes are known may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis, aka Speculative Stor...

AMD ARM Intel - Speculative Execution Variant 4 Speculative Store Bypass

AMD ARM Intel - Speculative Execution Variant 4 Speculative Store Bypass / ======== Intro / Overview ======== After Michael Schwarz made some interesting observations, we started looking into variants other than the three already-known ones. I noticed that Intel's Optimization Manual says in...

kernel security update

3.10.0-862.3.2.OL7 - Oracle Linux certificates Alexey Petrenko - Oracle Linux RHCK Module Signing Key was compiled into kernel [email protected] - Update x509.genkey bug 24817676 3.10.0-862.3.2 - x86 specctrl: Fix late microcode problem with AMD Waiman Long 1566904...

USN-3651-1 qemu update

Ken Johnson and Jann Horn independently discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution of a memory read may allow unauthorized memory reads via sidechannel attacks. An attacker in the guest could use this to expose sensitive guest information, including kernel memory. This update...

hw: cpu: speculative store bypass

An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of Load & Store instructions a commonly used performance optimization. It relies on the presence of a precisely-defined instruction sequence in the privileged code as well as the...

hw: cpu: speculative store bypass

An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of Load & Store instructions a commonly used performance optimization. It relies on the presence of a precisely-defined instruction sequence in the privileged code as well as the...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: java-1.8.0-openjdk security update

An update for java-1.8.0-openjdk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. 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 each...

hw: cpu: speculative store bypass

An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of Load & Store instructions a commonly used performance optimization. It relies on the presence of a precisely-defined instruction sequence in the privileged code as well as the...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: java-1.7.0-openjdk security update

An update for java-1.7.0-openjdk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. 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 each...

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

An update for qemu-kvm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. 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 each vulnerability from...

hw: cpu: speculative store bypass

An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of Load & Store instructions a commonly used performance optimization. It relies on the presence of a precisely-defined instruction sequence in the privileged code as well as the...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel-rt security update

An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 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 each vulnerability from...

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

An update for qemu-kvm-rhev is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 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...

hw: cpu: speculative store bypass

An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of Load & Store instructions a commonly used performance optimization. It relies on the presence of a precisely-defined instruction sequence in the privileged code as well as the...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-3640

Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and that perform speculative reads of system registers may allow unauthorized disclosure of system parameters to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis, aka Rogue System Register Read RSRE, Variant 3a...

CVE-2018-3639

Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of all prior memory writes are known may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis, aka Speculative Stor...

Speculative Store Bypass

ISSUE DESCRIPTION Contemporary high performance processors may use a technique commonly known as Memory Disambiguation, whereby speculative execution may proceed past unresolved stores. This opens a speculative sidechannel in which loads from an address which have had a recent store can observe a...