Speculative Execution Bounty Launch

Today, Microsoft is announcing the launch of a limited-time bounty program for speculative execution side channel vulnerabilities. This new class of vulnerabilities was disclosed in January 2018 and represented a major advancement in the research in this field. In recognition of that threat...

FreeBSD-SA-18:03.speculative_execution

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-18:03.speculativeexecution Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Speculative Execution Vulnerabilities Category: core Module: kernel Announced: 2018-03-1...

FreeBSD -- Speculative Execution Vulnerabilities

Problem Description: A number of issues relating to speculative execution were found last year and publicly announced January 3rd. Two of these, known as Meltdown and Spectre V2, are addressed here. CVE-2017-5754 Meltdown - ------------------------ This issue relies on an affected CPU speculative...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2018:0496)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:0496 advisory. - hw: cpu: speculative execution bounds-check bypass CVE-2017-5753 Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2018:0512)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:0512 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: hw: cpu: speculative execution branch target...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel 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 th...

hw: cpu: speculative execution bounds-check bypass

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...

hw: cpu: speculative execution bounds-check bypass

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...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 Extended 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 for...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerability (USN-3594-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3594-1 advisory. USN-3542-1 mitigated CVE-2017-5715 Spectre Variant 2 for the amd64 architecture in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This update provides the compiler-based retpoline kernel...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2018:0638-1) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

This update for xen fixes several issues. This new feature was included : - add script and sysv service to watch for vcpu online/offline events in a HVM domU These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5754: Prevent information leaks via side effects of speculative...

hw: cpu: speculative execution permission faults handling

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...

hw: cpu: speculative execution bounds-check bypass

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...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 Long Life. 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...

SUSE-SU-2018:0609-1 Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5754: Prevent information leaks via side effects of speculative execution, aka 'Spectre' and 'Meltdown' attacks bsc1074562, bsc1068032 - CVE-2018-5683: The vgadrawtext function...

MGASA-2018-0153 Updated libvirt packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated libvirt packages fix security vulnerabilities: In virsh, the hostname could crafted maliciously with ssh arguments, which would be passed to ssh bsc1053600. The defaulttlsx509verify and related parameters in qemu.conf control whether the TLS servers in QEMU request & verify certificates...

Updated libvirt packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated libvirt packages fix security vulnerabilities: In virsh, the hostname could crafted maliciously with ssh arguments, which would be passed to ssh bsc1053600. The defaulttlsx509verify and related parameters in qemu.conf control whether the TLS servers in QEMU request & verify certificates...

RHEL 5 : kernel (RHSA-2018:0292)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:0292 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: An industry-wide issue was found in th...

Debian DSA-4120-1 : linux - security update (Meltdown) (Spectre)

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks. - CVE-2017-5715 Multiple researchers have discovered a vulnerability in various processors supporting speculative execution, enabling an attacker...

SUSE-SU-2018:0525-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2017-5715: Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and indirect branch prediction may allow unauthorized disclosure of information ...