USN-3524-1 linux vulnerability

Jann Horn discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and indirect branch prediction may allow unauthorized memory reads via sidechannel attacks. This flaw is known as Meltdown. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information, including kernel memory...

USN-3522-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-euclid, linux-kvm vulnerability

Jann Horn discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and indirect branch prediction may allow unauthorized memory reads via sidechannel attacks. This flaw is known as Meltdown. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information, including kernel memory...

USN-3521-1 nvidia-graphics-drivers-384 vulnerability

Jann Horn 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. This update provide...

Exploit for Observable Discrepancy in Intel Atom_C

Spectre attack Spectre breaks the isolatio...

The vulnerability of Intel and ARM processors is caused by a memory access control error during speculative execution of processor instructions, allowing attackers to disclose protected information.

The vulnerabilities of Intel and ARM processors stem from errors in memory access control during speculative execution of processor instructions. Exploiting these vulnerabilities allows attackers to gain access to protected memory from a program that does not have the necessary privileges. This i...

EulerOS 2.0 SP1 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2018-1002)

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - The recent speculative execution CVEs address three potential attacks across a wide variety of architectures and hardware platforms. - Note: Thi...

Security Bulletin: NVIDIA GeForce Experience (GFE) Security Updates for CPU Speculative Side Channel Vulnerabilities

NVIDIA GeForce Experience GFE response to CPU speculative side channel vulnerabilities - CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5754 Bulletin Summary NVIDIA is providing an initial security update to mitigate aspects of Google Project Zero's January 3, 2018 publication of novel information...

Virtuozzo 7 : crit / criu / criu-devel / ksm-vz / libcompel / etc (VZA-2018-003)

According to the versions of the crit / criu / criu-devel / ksm-vz / libcompel / 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 ...

RHEL 6 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2018:0021)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:0021 advisory. The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirement...

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...

Important kernel security update: Fixes for Meltdown and Spectre exploits; new kernel 3.10.0-693.11.6.vz7.40.4, Virtuozzo 7.0 Update 6 Hotfix 3 (7.0.6-710)

This update provides a new Virtuozzo 7.0 kernel 3.10.0-693.11.6.vz7.40.4 that is a rebase to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 kernel 3.10.0-693.11.6.el7. The rebase fixes an industry-wide issue that was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of...

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...

FreeBSD : mozilla -- Speculative execution side-channel attack (8429711b-76ca-474e-94a0-6b980f1e2d47)

Mozilla Foundation reports : Jann Horn of Google Project Zero Security reported that speculative execution performed by modern CPUs could leak information through a timing side-channel attack. Microsoft Vulnerability Research extended this attack to browser JavaScript engines and demonstrated tha...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Firefox vulnerabilities (USN-3516-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3516-1 advisory. It was discovered that speculative execution performed by modern CPUs could leak information through a timing side-channel attack, and that...

EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : kernel (EulerOS-SA-2018-1001)

According to the versions of the kernel packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - The recent speculative execution CVEs address three potential attacks across a wide variety of architectures and hardware platforms. - Note: Thi...

Experts Weigh In On Spectre Patch Challenges

The race to patch against the Meltdown and Spectre processor vulnerabilities disclosed last week is on. As of today, there are no known exploits in the wild impacting vulnerable Intel, AMD and ARM devices. Currently, vendors are focused on three main mitigation efforts. Patches that address the...

In-Spectre-Meltdown - Tool to identify Meltdown & Spectre Vulnerabilities in processors

This tool allows to check speculative execution side-channel attacks that affect many modern processors and operating systems designs. CVE-2017-5754 Meltdown and CVE-2017-5715 Spectre allows unprivileged processes to steal secrets from privileged processes. These attacks present 3 different ways ...

VMSA-2018-0004:VMware vSphere, Workstation and Fusion updates add Hypervisor-Assisted Guest Remediation for speculative execution issue

VMSA-2018-0004.3 VMware vSphere, Workstation and Fusion updates add Hypervisor-Assisted Guest Mitigations for speculative execution issue VMware Security Advisory VMware Security Advisory Advisory ID: VMSA-2018-0005 VMware Security Advisory Severity: Critical VMware Security Advisory Synopsis:...

Important kernel security update: Fixes for Meltdown and Spectre exploits; new kernel 2.6.32-042stab127.2, Virtuozzo 6.0 Update 12 Hotfix 20 (6.0.12-3690)

This update provides a new Virtuozzo 6.0 kernel 2.6.32-042stab127.2 that is a rebase to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 kernel 2.6.32-696.18.7.el6. The rebase fixes an industry-wide issue that was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of...