Xen Project Microarchitectural Data Sampling Speculative Side-Channel Vulnerabilities (MDSUM/RIDL) (MFBDS/RIDL/ZombieLoad) (MLPDS/RIDL) (MSBDS/Fallout) (XSA-297)

According to its self-reported version number, the Xen hypervisor installed on the remote host is affected by microarchitectural data sampling speculative side-channel vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities may allow a local attacker on a guest machine to sample the contents of memory reads and...

Intel Fixes Critical, High-Severity Flaws Across Several Products

Intel has issued an updated advisory for more than 30 fixes addressing vulnerabilities across various products – including a critical flaw in Intel’s converged security and management engine CSME that could enable privilege-escalation. The bug CVE-2019-0153 exists in a subsystem of Intel CSME,...

openSUSE Security Update : xen (openSUSE-2019-1419) (MDSUM/RIDL) (MFBDS/RIDL/ZombieLoad) (MLPDS/RIDL) (MSBDS/Fallout)

This update for xen fixes the following issues : Four new speculative execution information leak issues have been identified in Intel CPUs. bsc1111331 - CVE-2018-12126: Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data Sampling MSBDS - CVE-2018-12127: Microarchitectural Fill Buffer Data Sampling MFBDS -...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2019-1407) (MDSUM/RIDL) (MFBDS/RIDL/ZombieLoad) (MLPDS/RIDL) (MSBDS/Fallout)

The openSUSE Leap 42.3 kernel was updated to 4.4.179 to receive various security and bugfixes. Four new speculative execution information leak issues have been identified in Intel CPUs. bsc1111331 - CVE-2018-12126: Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data Sampling MSBDS - CVE-2018-12127:...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for xen (openSUSE-SU-2019:1419-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2019 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Behind the Naming of ZombieLoad and Other Intel Spectre-Like Flaws

There was a lot more to the name game behind choosing titles for ZombieLoad, Spectre and Meltdown than picking cool and edgy attack titles. If you have ever wondered why they were named what they were, Threatpost tracked down one of the researchers behind the naming convention and discovery and...

ZombieLoad Pioneer: The Story Behind Intel’s Latest Side Channel Flaw

The release of a new speculative execution vulnerability called ZombieLoad last week follows a similar disclosure path as Meltdown and Spectre. Threatpost caught up with one of the researchers behind the discovery of ZombieLoad to find out how. ZombieLoad was discovered and reported by Michael...

Product update: Virtuozzo 6.0 Update 12 Hotfix 41 (6.0.12-3741)

This update provides hypervisor-related fixes for the Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data MDS vulnerability as well as a stability fix. Vulnerability id: PSBM-94407 The Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data MDS is a series of hardware vulnerabilities which allow speculative execution attacks on...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (important)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for the Linux Kernel Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:1407-1 Rating: important References: 1012382 1020645 1020989 1031492 1047487 1051510 1053043 1062056 1063638 1064388 1066223 1070872 1085539 1087092 1094244 1096480 1096728 1097104 1100132 1103186...

Fedora 30 : xen (2019-6458474bf2) (MDSUM/RIDL) (MFBDS/RIDL/ZombieLoad) (MLPDS/RIDL) (MSBDS/Fallout)

Microarchitectural Data Sampling speculative side channel XSA-297, CVE-2018-12126, CVE-2018-12127, CVE-2018-12130, CVE-2019-11091 additional patches so above applies cleanly work around grub2 issues in dom0 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly...

Intel official for 5 on 15, the aeration out of the CPU side channel vulnerabilities“ZombieLoad”detailed technical analysis of under-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Buffer override of the program sequence In the absence of enumeration MDCLEAR functions of the processor, certain instruction sequences can be used for cover by the MDS affect the buffer. You can point this, a detailed review of these sequences. Different processors may require different sequence...

Virtuozzo 7 : bpftool / cpupools / cpupools-features / etc (VZA-2019-039)

According to the version of the bpftool / cpupools / cpupools-features / etc packages installed, the Virtuozzo installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - The Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data MDS is a series of hardware vulnerabilities which allow speculativ...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:1287-1) (MDSUM/RIDL) (MFBDS/RIDL/ZombieLoad) (MLPDS/RIDL) (MSBDS/Fallout)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP2 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Four new speculative execution information leak issues have been identified in Intel CPUs. bsc1111331 CVE-2018-12126: Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data Sampling MSBDS CVE-2018-12127: Microarchitectura...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:1289-1) (MDSUM/RIDL) (MFBDS/RIDL/ZombieLoad) (MLPDS/RIDL) (MSBDS/Fallout)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 LTSS kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Four new speculative execution information leak issues have been identified in Intel CPUs. bsc1111331 CVE-2018-12126: Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data Sampling MSBDS CVE-2018-12127:...

Product update: Virtuozzo 7.0 Update 10 Hotfix 1 (7.0.10-320)

The Hotfix 1 for for Virtuozzo 7.0.10 mitigates the Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data MDS vulnerability and provides stability and usability bug fixes. Vulnerability id: PSBM-94407 The Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data MDS is a series of hardware vulnerabilities which allow speculative...

News Wrap: WhatsApp, Microsoft, Intel and Cisco Flaws

This week was filled with flaws, flaws and more flaws: From a zero-day under active exploit in the WhatsApp messaging app, to Patch Tuesday glitches addressed by Microsoft. Threatpost breaks down the top vulnerabilities of the week, including: A WhatsApp zero-day vulnerability being exploited in...

openSUSE Security Update : xen (openSUSE-2019-1403) (MDSUM/RIDL) (MFBDS/RIDL/ZombieLoad) (MLPDS/RIDL) (MSBDS/Fallout)

This update for xen fixes the following issues : Four new speculative execution information leak issues have been identified in Intel CPUs. bsc1111331 - CVE-2018-12126: Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data Sampling MSBDS - CVE-2018-12127: Microarchitectural Fill Buffer Data Sampling MFBDS -...

Oracle Linux 7 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2019-4643)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2019-4643 advisory. - x86/mds: Add empty commit for CVE-2019-11091 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Orabug: 29721848 CVE-2019-11091 - x86/speculation/mds: Make mdsmitigation mutable...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2019:14051-1) (MDSUM/RIDL) (MFBDS/RIDL/ZombieLoad) (MLPDS/RIDL) (MSBDS/Fallout)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP4 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Four new speculative execution information leak issues have been identified in Intel CPUs. bsc1111331 CVE-2018-12126: Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data Sampling MSBDS CVE-2018-12127: Microarchitectura...

openSUSE Security Update : the Linux Kernel (openSUSE-2019-1404) (MDSUM/RIDL) (MFBDS/RIDL/ZombieLoad) (MLPDS/RIDL) (MSBDS/Fallout)

The openSUSE Leap 15.0 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. Four new speculative execution information leak issues have been identified in Intel CPUs. bsc1111331 - CVE-2018-12126: Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data Sampling MSBDS - CVE-2018-12127: Microarchitectural Fill...