Kernel security update: CVE-2017-18017 and other; new kernel 2.6.32-042stab128.2 for Virtuozzo Containers for Linux 4.7, Server Bare Metal 5.0

This update provides a new Virtuozzo Containers for Linux 4.7 and Server Bare Metal 5.0 kernel 2.6.32-042stab128.2 that is a rebase to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 kernel 2.6.32-696.23.1.el6. This kernel was recompiled by the updated gcc with retpolines support. Retpolines are a technique use...

KVA Shadow: Mitigating Meltdown on Windows

On January 3rd, 2018, Microsoft released an advisory and security updates that relate to a new class of discovered hardware vulnerabilities, termed speculative execution side channels, that affect the design methodology and implementation decisions behind many modern microprocessors. This post...

SUSE-SU-2018:0757-1 Security update for crash

This update for crash fixes the following issues: - Exclude openSUSE from RT KMP build bsc1013843 This update also rebuilds the crash kernel module packages with retpoline support to mitigate Spectre Variant 2. bsc1068032 CVE-2017-5715...

Security update for various KMPs (important)

The Spectre Variant 2 in the Linux Kernel is mitigated using "retpolines". This update rebuilds all openSUSE Leap 42.3 KMPs to use "retpolines" and so be able to mitigate the Spectre v2 attack. bsc1068032 CVE-2017-5715...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for various KMPs (openSUSE-SU-2018:0745-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2018 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...

openSUSE Security Update : various KMPs (openSUSE-2018-284) (Spectre)

The Spectre Variant 2 in the Linux Kernel is mitigated using 'retpolines'. This update rebuilds all openSUSE Leap 42.3 KMPs to use 'retpolines' and so be able to mitigate the Spectre v2 attack. bsc1068032 CVE-2017-5715 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3594-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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...

USN-3594-1: Linux kernel vulnerability

USN-3542-1 mitigated CVE-2017-5715 Spectre Variant 2 for the amd64 architecture in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This update provides the compiler-based retpoline kernel mitigation for the amd64 and i386 architectures. Original advisory details: Jann Horn discovered that microprocessors utilizing speculative...

CVE-2018-4838

A vulnerability has been identified in EN100 Ethernet module IEC 61850 variant All versions V4.30, EN100 Ethernet module DNP3 variant All versions V1.04, EN100 Ethernet module PROFINET IO variant All versions, EN100 Ethernet module Modbus TCP variant All versions, EN100 Ethernet module IEC 104...

CVE-2018-4840

A vulnerability has been identified in DIGSI 4 All versions V4.92, EN100 Ethernet module DNP3 variant All versions V1.05.00, EN100 Ethernet module IEC 104 variant All versions, EN100 Ethernet module IEC 61850 variant All versions V4.30, EN100 Ethernet module Modbus TCP variant All versions, EN100...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that fix six bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Extended Update 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...

Intel Releases Updated Spectre Fixes For Broadwell and Haswell Chips

Intel has issued updated microcode to help safeguard its Broadwell and Haswell chips from the Spectre Variant 2 security exploits. According to Intel documents, an array of its older processors, including the Broadwell Xeon E3, Broadwell U/Y, Haswell H,S and Haswell Xeon E3 platforms, have now be...

Mirai Variant ‘OMG’ Turns IoT Devices into Proxy Servers for Cryptomining

By Waqas Mirai IoT bot malware is one such piece of malicious This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Mirai Variant 'OMG' Turns IoT Devices into Proxy Servers for Cryptomining...

[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...

MGASA-2018-0134 Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel update is based on the upstream 4.14.20 and adds KPTI mitigation for Meltdown CVE-2017-5754 on 32bit x86. Arm platorm has now also addedmitigations for Meltdown CVE-2017-5754 and Spectre, variant 2 CVE-2017-5715. For other fixes in this update, read the referenced changelogs...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-3582-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3582-1 advisory. Mohamed Ghannam discovered that the IPv4 raw socket implementation in the Linux kernel contained a race condition leading to uninitialized pointer usage....

Ubuntu 17.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-3581-1) (Spectre)

Mohamed Ghannam discovered that the IPv4 raw socket implementation in the Linux kernel contained a race condition leading to uninitialized pointer usage. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2017-17712 ChunYu Wang discovered that a...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities (USN-3581-2)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3581-2 advisory. USN-3581-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 17.10. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement H...

USN-3582-2: Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities

USN-3582-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This update provides the corresponding updates for the Linux Hardware Enablement HWE kernel from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Mohamed Ghannam discovered that the IPv4 raw socket implementation in the Linux kernel...

USN-3582-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Mohamed Ghannam discovered that the IPv4 raw socket implementation in the Linux kernel contained a race condition leading to uninitialized pointer usage. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. CVE-2017-17712 Laurent Guerby discovered that...