July 9, 2019—KB4507461 (Security-only update)

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July 9, 2019—KB4507457 (Security-only update)

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July 9, 2019—KB4507452 (Monthly Rollup)

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SWAPGS Spectre Side-Channel Vulnerability

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA is aware of a vulnerability CVE-2019-1125 known as SWAPGS, which is a variant of Spectre Variant 1—that affects modern computer processors. This vulnerability can be exploited to steal sensitive data present in a computer systems' memory...

Medium: kernel

Issue Overview: There is a newly discovered variant side-channel attack of Spectre V1 which leverages SWAPGS instructions to bypass KPTI/KVA mitigations. This could lead to a kernel information disclosure Affected Packages: kernel Issue Correction: Run yum update kernel or yum update --advisory...

[SECURITY] [DLA 1731-1] linux security update

Package : linux Version : 3.16.64-1 CVE ID : CVE-2016-10741 CVE-2017-5753 CVE-2017-13305 CVE-2018-3639 CVE-2018-5848 CVE-2018-5953 CVE-2018-12896 CVE-2018-13053 CVE-2018-16862 CVE-2018-16884 CVE-2018-17972 CVE-2018-18281 CVE-2018-18690 CVE-2018-18710 CVE-2018-19824 CVE-2018-19985 CVE-2018-20169...

Reading Privileged Memory with a Side Channel - US

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-18282 Potential Impact: Malicious code running locally may be able to observe contents of privileged memory, circumventing expected privilege levels. Severity: High Scope of Impact: Industry-wide CVE Identifier: “Spectre” CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715 “Meltdown”...

[SECURITY] [DLA 1422-2] linux security update

Package : linux Version : 3.16.57-2 CVE ID : CVE-2017-5715 CVE-2017-5753 CVE-2018-1066 CVE-2018-1093 CVE-2018-1130 CVE-2018-3665 CVE-2018-5814 CVE-2018-9422 CVE-2018-10853 CVE-2018-10940 CVE-2018-11506 CVE-2018-12233 CVE-2018-1000204 Debian Bug : 898165 The previous update to linux failed to buil...

[slackware-security] Slackware 14.2 kernel

New kernel packages are available for Slackware 14.2 to mitigate the speculative side channel attack known as Spectre variant 1. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/linux-4.4.118/: Upgraded. This kernel includes user pointer sanitization mitigation for the...

Fedora 26 : kernel (2018-e6fe35524d)

The 4.14.13 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. This is also the first update to contain some spectre mitigations. Some patches for variant 1 as well as the initial retpoline build for variant 2. These variant 2 mitigations will improve with further patches,...

Fedora 27 : kernel (2018-21a7ad920c)

The 4.14.13 stable kernel update contains a number of important fixes across the tree. This is also the first update to contain some spectre mitigations. Some patches for variant 1 as well as the initial retpoline build for variant 2. These variant 2 mitigations will improve with further patches,...

Updated wireshark packages fix security vulnerabilities

The MRDISC dissector could crash CVE-2017-17997. The IxVeriWave file parser could crash CVE-2018-5334. The WCP dissector could crash CVE-2018-5335. Multiple dissectors could crash CVE-2018-5336. Prior to this release dumpcap enabled the Linux kernel’s BPF JIT compiler via the net.core.bpfjitenabl...

MGASA-2018-0071 Updated wireshark packages fix security vulnerabilities

The MRDISC dissector could crash CVE-2017-17997. The IxVeriWave file parser could crash CVE-2018-5334. The WCP dissector could crash CVE-2018-5335. Multiple dissectors could crash CVE-2018-5336. Prior to this release dumpcap enabled the Linux kernel’s BPF JIT compiler via the net.core.bpfjitenabl...

Meltdown and Spectre fallout: patching problems persist

Last week, the disclosure by multiple teams from Graz and Pennsylvania University, Rambus, Data61, Cyberus Technology, and Google Project Zero of vulnerabilities under the aliases Meltdown and Spectre rocked the security world, sending vendors scurrying to create patches, if at all possible, and...

CPU hardware vulnerable to side-channel attacks

Overview CPU hardware implementations are vulnerable to cache side-channel attacks. These vulnerabilities are referred to as Meltdown and Spectre. Description CPU hardware implementations are vulnerable to side-channel attacks referred to as Meltdown and Spectre. Both Spectre and Meltdown take...

CVE-2017-5753

Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and branch prediction may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis...

SGI IRIX <= 6.2 fsdump Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/355/info A number of vulnerabilities exist in the fsdump program included with Silicon Graphics Inc's IRIX operating system. Each of these holes can be used to obtain root privlilege. Variant 1: irix% /var/rfindd/fsdump...