Security Advisory - Information Disclosure Vulnerability about SWAPGS Instruction

An information disclosure vulnerability exists when certain x86-64-bit central processing units CPU speculatively access memory, this vulnerability uses the SWAPGS instruction in the CPU. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would have to log on to an affected system and run a specially...

USN-4096-1 linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe vulnerability

Andrei Vlad Lutas and Dan Lutas discovered that some x86 processors incorrectly handle SWAPGS instructions during speculative execution. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information kernel memory...

FreeBSD Security Advisory (FreeBSD-SA-08:07.amd64.asc)

The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory FreeBSD-SA-08:07.amd64.asc ADV FreeBSD-SA-08:07.amd64.asc OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from ADV FreeBSD-SA-08:07.amd64.asc Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-So...