Security Bulletin: IBM Security Guardium is affected by a Using Components (microcode_ctl) with Known Vulnerabilities vulnerability

Summary IBM Security Guardium has addressed the following vulnerabilities. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2017-5715 DESCRIPTION: Intel Haswell Xeon, AMD PRO and ARM Cortex A57 CPUs could allow a local authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a branch target injection in...

Power Management Controller (PMC) Security Advisory

Summary: A potential security vulnerability in power management controller firmware may allow escalation of privilege and/ or information disclosure. Intel is releasing firmware updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-3643 Description: A vulnerabili...

Intel DCI Policy Update - US

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-23611 Potential Impact: Privilege escalation, information disclosure Severity: High Scope of Impact: Industry-wide CVE Identifier: CVE-2018-3652 Summary Description: Intel is releasing Direct Connect Interface DCI policy update. Existing UEFI setting restrictions for...

Foreshadow Attacks — 3 New Intel CPU Side-Channel Flaws Discovered

2018 has been quite a tough year for Intel. While the chip-maker giant is still dealing with Meltdown and Spectre processor vulnerabilities, yet another major speculative execution flaw has been revealed in Intel's Core and Xeon lines of processors that may leave users vulnerable to cyber-attacks...

Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Manager is affected by the vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown

Summary IBM Cloud Manager is affected by security vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown, which can enable CPU data cache timing to be abused to bypass conventional memory security restrictions to gain access to privileged memory that should be inaccessible. Vulnerability Details CVEID:...

Security Bulletin: IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence has released a fixpack in response to the vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown

Summary IBM has released the following fixpack for IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence in response to CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5754 Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2017-5753 DESCRIPTION: Intel Haswell Xeon, AMD PRO and ARM Cortex A57 CPUs could allow a local authenticated attacke...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : microcode_ctl (SUSE-SU-2018:2076-1) (Spectre)

This update for microcodectl fixes the following issues: The Intel CPU Microcode bundle was updated to the 20180703 release For the listed CPU chipsets this fixes CVE-2018-3640 Spectre v3a and helps mitigating CVE-2018-3639 Spectre v4 bsc1100147 bsc1087082 bsc1087083 More details can be found on:...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : Recommended update for ucode-intel (SUSE-SU-2018:1935-1) (Spectre)

The Intel CPU microcode bundle was updated to the 20180703 release. For the listed CPU chipsets this fixes CVE-2018-3640 Spectre v3a and helps mitigating CVE-2018-3639 Spectre v4 bsc1100147 bsc1087082 bsc1087083. More information on:...

Design/Logic Flaw

Existing UEFI setting restrictions for DCI Direct Connect Interface in 5th and 6th generation Intel Xeon Processor E3 Family, Intel Xeon Scalable processors, and Intel Xeon Processor D Family allows a limited physical presence attacker to potentially access platform secrets via debug interfaces...

CVE-2018-3652

Existing UEFI setting restrictions for DCI Direct Connect Interface in 5th and 6th generation Intel Xeon Processor E3 Family, Intel Xeon Scalable processors, and Intel Xeon Processor D Family allows a limited physical presence attacker to potentially access platform secrets via debug interfaces...

CVE-2018-3652

Existing UEFI setting restrictions for DCI Direct Connect Interface in 5th and 6th generation Intel Xeon Processor E3 Family, Intel Xeon Scalable processors, and Intel Xeon Processor D Family allows a limited physical presence attacker to potentially access platform secrets via debug interfaces...

CVE-2018-3652

CVE-2018-3652 relates to UEFI DCI (Direct Connect Interface) restrictions on 5th/6th gen Intel Xeon E3, Xeon Scalable, and Xeon D processors. The issue could allow a limited physical presence attacker to access platform secrets via debug interfaces when DCI policy/UEFI controls are in effect. The...

Platform firmware included insecure handling of certain UEFI variables

Summary: This update improves the security of the firmware and the ability to enable secure configuration. Description: Insecure handling of UEFI variables in Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 v4 Family, Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 v3 Family system firmware potentially...

CVE-2018-3652: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Existing UEFI setting restrictions for DCI Direct Connect Interface in 5th and 6th generation Intel Xeon Processor E3 Family, Intel Xeon Scalable processors, and Intel Xeon Processor D Family allows a limited physical presence attacker to potentially access platform secrets via debug interfaces...

Intel® Converged Security Management Engine (Intel® CSME) 11.x issue

Summary: In an effort to continuously improve the robustness of the Intel® Converged Security Management Engine Intel® CSME, Intel has performed a security review of its Intel® CSME with the objective of continuously enhancing firmware resilience. Description: In an effort to continuously improve...

DCI Policy Update

Summary: Intel is releasing Direct Connect Interface DCI policy update. Description: Existing UEFI setting restrictions for DCI Direct Connect Interface in 5th and 6th generation Intel® Xeon® Processor E3 Family, Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, and Intel® Xeon® Processor D Family can potentiall...

HPSBHF03586 rev. 1 - DCI Policy Update

Potential Security Impact Information disclosure and escalation of privilege via limited physical presence. Source: HP, HP Product Security Response Team PSRT Reported by: Intel VULNERABILITY SUMMARY Intel platforms, starting with Skylake, support a USB 3-based debugging interface a.k.a. Direct...

Security Bulletin: IBM Information Server on Cloud is affected by the vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown.

Summary IBM Information Server on Cloud is affected by the vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown, which can enable CPU data cache timing to be abused to bypass conventional memory security restrictions to gain access to privileged memory that should be inaccessible. Vulnerability Details...

Security Bulletin: IBM Netezza Host Management is affected by the vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown.

Summary IBM Netezza Host Management is affected by the vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown, which can enable CPU data cache timing to be abused to bypass conventional memory security restrictions to gain access to privileged memory that should be inaccessible. Vulnerability Details CVEI...

Security Bulletin: IBM Aspera Platform On Demand, IBM Aspera Server On Demand, IBM Aspera Faspex On Demand, IBM Aspera Shares On Demand, IBM Aspera Transfer Cluster Manager is affected by the vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown.

Summary IBM Aspera Platform On Demand, IBM Aspera Server On Demand, IBM Aspera Faspex On Demand, IBM Aspera Shares On Demand, IBM Aspera Transfer Cluster Manager is affected by the vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown, which can enable CPU data cache timing to be abused to bypass...