Important: libvirt

Issue Overview: 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...

Important: qemu-kvm

Issue Overview: 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...

Important: microcode_ctl

Issue Overview: 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...

Virtuozzo 6 : cpupools / cpupools-features / etc (VZA-2018-006)

According to the versions of the cpupools / cpupools-features / 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 presence o...

VMSA-2018-0007:VMware Virtual Appliance updates address side-channel analysis due to speculative execution

VMSA-2018-0007.6 VMware Virtual Appliance updates address side-channel analysis due to speculative execution VMware Security Advisory VMware Security Advisory Advisory ID: VMSA-2018-0007.6 VMware Security Advisory Severity: Important VMware Security Advisory Synopsis: VMware Virtual Appliance...

Important product update: Fixes for Meltdown and Spectre exploits in virtual machines; Virtuozzo 6.0 Update 12 Hotfix 21 (6.0.12-3698)

Hotfix 21 for Virtuozzo 6.0 Update 12 provides fixes for Meltdown and Spectre exploits in virtual machines as well as stability and usability bug fixes. NOTE: For clusters with CPU pools, follow the instructions at https://help.virtuozzo.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2919459. Vulnerability id:...

OracleVM 3.3 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2018-0016) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - x86: Add another set of MSR accessor functions Borislav Petkov Orabug: 27444923 CVE-2017-5753 - userns: prevent speculative execution Elena Reshetova Orabug: 27444923 CVE-2017-5753 - udf: prevent...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

kernel-uek 3.8.13-118.20.2 - x86: Add another set of MSR accessor functions Borislav Petkov Orabug: 27444923 CVE-2017-5753 - userns: prevent speculative execution Elena Reshetova Orabug: 27444923 CVE-2017-5753 - udf: prevent speculative execution Elena Reshetova Orabug: 27444923 CVE-2017-5753 - f...

The Effects of the Spectre and Meltdown Vulnerabilities

On January 3, the world learned about a series of major security vulnerabilities in modern microprocessors. Called Spectre and Meltdown, these vulnerabilities were discovered by several different researchers last summer, disclosed to the microprocessors' manufacturers, and patched­ -- at least to...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2018:0151 centos7

Check the version of kernel SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882836";...

CentOS 7 : kernel (CESA-2018:0151) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

An update for kernel 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 th...

MGASA-2018-0101 Updated virtualbox packages fix security vulnerabilities

Oracle VM VirtualBox incorporate the OpenSSL software libraries to provide cryptographic capabilities. OpenSSL versions through 1.0.2m and 1.1.0g are susceptible to a vulnerability that could allow an attacker to recover encryption keys and access protected communications CVE-2017-3736. Systems...

Updated virtualbox packages fix security vulnerabilities

Oracle VM VirtualBox incorporate the OpenSSL software libraries to provide cryptographic capabilities. OpenSSL versions through 1.0.2m and 1.1.0g are susceptible to a vulnerability that could allow an attacker to recover encryption keys and access protected communications CVE-2017-3736. Systems...

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 7.3 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...

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 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 th...

SUSE-SU-2018:0213-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 Realtime 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: Local attacke...

Security update for MozillaFirefox (important)

This update for MozillaFirefox fixes the following issues: - update to Firefox 52.6esr boo1077291 MFSA 2018-01 Speculative execution side-channel attack "Spectre" MFSA 2018-03 CVE-2018-5091 bmo1423086 Use-after-free with DTMF timers CVE-2018-5095 bmo1418447 Integer overflow in Skia library during...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20180125) (Meltdown) (Spectre)

Security Fixes : 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...