Chrome Now Features Site Isolation to Defend Against Spectre

Google introduced new security mitigations for its Chrome browser to defend against recently discovered Spectre variants. The new security feature, called site isolation, essentially isolates different browser work processes between various browser tabs. That means one tab’s webpage rendering and...

SUSE-SU-2018:1948-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 20 for SLE 12 SP2)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.120-9270 fixes several issues. The following security issue was fixed: - CVE-2018-3665: System software utilizing Lazy FP state restore technique on systems using Intel Core-based microprocessors may potentially have allowed a local process to infer data from...

SUSE-SU-2018:1946-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 22 for SLE 12 SP2)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.121-9280 fixes several issues. The following security issue was fixed: - CVE-2018-3665: System software utilizing Lazy FP state restore technique on systems using Intel Core-based microprocessors may potentially have allowed a local process to infer data from...

SUSE-SU-2018:1947-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 15 for SLE 12 SP2)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.90-9250 fixes several issues. The following security issue was fixed: - CVE-2018-3665: System software utilizing Lazy FP state restore technique on systems using Intel Core-based microprocessors may potentially have allowed a local process to infer data from...

SUSE-SU-2018:1942-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 14 for SLE 12 SP2)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.90-9245 fixes several issues. The following security issue was fixed: - CVE-2018-3665: System software utilizing Lazy FP state restore technique on systems using Intel Core-based microprocessors may potentially have allowed a local process to infer data from...

SUSE-SU-2018:1944-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 17 for SLE 12 SP2)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.103-9256 fixes several issues. The following security issue was fixed: - CVE-2018-3665: System software utilizing Lazy FP state restore technique on systems using Intel Core-based microprocessors may potentially have allowed a local process to infer data from...

SUSE-SU-2018:1940-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 16 for SLE 12 SP2)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.103-9253 fixes several issues. The following security issue was fixed: - CVE-2018-3665: System software utilizing Lazy FP state restore technique on systems using Intel Core-based microprocessors may potentially have allowed a local process to infer data from...

SUSE-SU-2018:1943-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 19 for SLE 12 SP2)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.114-9267 fixes several issues. The following security issue was fixed: - CVE-2018-3665: System software utilizing Lazy FP state restore technique on systems using Intel Core-based microprocessors may potentially have allowed a local process to infer data from...

SUSE-SU-2018:1945-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 18 for SLE 12 SP2)

This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.114-9264 fixes several issues. The following security issue was fixed: - CVE-2018-3665: System software utilizing Lazy FP state restore technique on systems using Intel Core-based microprocessors may potentially have allowed a local process to infer data from...

OracleVM 3.4 : qemu-kvm (OVMSA-2018-0238) (Spectre)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - qemu-kvm-i386-define-the-ssbd-CPUID-feature-bit-CVE-2018 -3639.patch - qemu-kvm-i386-Define-the-Virt-SSBD-MSR-and-handling-of-i t-CVE.patch - qemu-kvm-i386-define-the-AMD-virt-ssbd-CPUID-feature-bit...

Fresh Spectre Variants Come to Light

Two new speculative execution bugs have earned researchers a $100,000 bug bounty from Intel. MIT’s Vladimir Kiriansky and independent researcher Carl Waldspurger uncovered what they call Spectre1.1 and a subset, Spectre1.2, collectively referred to as Variant 4 of Spectre by Intel and ARM. Like t...

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 security update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Extended Lifecycle 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...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security 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...

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...

Two New Spectre-Class CPU Flaws Discovered—Intel Pays $100K Bounty

Intel has paid out a $100,000 bug bounty for new processor vulnerabilities that are related to Spectre variant one CVE-2017-5753. The new Spectre-class variants are tracked as Spectre 1.1 CVE-2018-3693 and Spectre 1.2, of which Spectre 1.1 described as a bounds-check bypass store attack has been...

Two New Spectre-Class CPU Flaws Discovered—Intel Pays $100K Bounty

Intel has paid out a $100,000 bug bounty for new processor vulnerabilities that are related to Spectre variant one CVE-2017-5753. The new Spectre-class variants are tracked as Spectre 1.1 CVE-2018-3693 and Spectre 1.2, of which Spectre 1.1 described as a bounds-check bypass store attack has been...

Oracle Linux 6 : kernel (ELSA-2018-2164)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2018-2164 advisory. - x86 entry/64: Don't use IST entry for BP stack Waiman Long 1596113 CVE-2018-10872 - mm mempolicy: fix use after free when calling getmempolicy August...

RHEL 6 : qemu-kvm (RHSA-2018:2162)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2162 advisory. - QEMU: vga: OOB read access during display update CVE-2017-13672 - hw: cpu: speculative store bypass CVE-2018-3639 - Qemu: Out-of-bounds re...

RHEL 6 : kernel (RHSA-2018:2164)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2164 advisory. - hw: cpu: speculative store bypass CVE-2018-3639 - Kernel: FPU state information leakage via lazy FPU restore CVE-2018-3665 - kernel: mm:...