Security Notice: CPU Speculative Side Channel Vulnerabilities

NVIDIA's response to CPU speculative side channel vulnerabilities CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715, and CVE-2017-5754 January 3, 2018 This notice is in response to Google Project Zero's publication of novel information disclosure attacks that combine CPU speculative execution with known side channels...

Critical: kernel

Issue Overview: An updated kernel release for Amazon Linux has been made available which prevents speculative execution of indirect branches within the kernel. This release incorporates latest stable open source Linux security improvements to address CVE-2017-5715 within the kernel and builds upo...

VMSA-2018-0002:VMware ESXi, Workstation and Fusion updates address side-channel analysis due to speculative execution.

VMSA-2018-0002.3 VMware ESXi, Workstation and Fusion updates address side-channel analysis due to speculative execution. VMware Security Advisory VMware Security Advisory Advisory ID: VMSA-2018-0002.3 VMware Security Advisory Severity: Important VMware Security Advisory Synopsis: VMware ESXi,...

PT-2017-3249

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Systems with microprocessors affected versions not specified Description The issue is related to speculative execution and indirect branch prediction in microprocessors, which may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker wit...

Apple Mac OS X Security Updates (HT208331, HT208394)-01

Apple Mac OS X is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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...

New Stars Malware Said to Target Iran

The Iranian government says it is being targeted by a new piece of malware aimed at its federal computers. The disclosure comes a few months after the country’s nuclear facility was hit by the Stuxnet worm, kicking off a frenzy of cyberwar hysteria and speculation. The new attack on Iran is the...