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May 13, 2019 3:08 pm

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SUSE addresses Microarchitectural Data Sampling Vulnerabilities

Researchers have identified new CPU side channel information leak attacks against various microarchitectural buffers used in Intel CPUs. These attacks allows local attackers to execute code to read out portions of recently read or written data by using speculative execution. Local attackers can be on the same OS or running code on the same thread […]

Tags: Linux security, Security, security vulnerability

By: Raj Meel

July 11, 2017 11:51 am

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Live Patching superhero doesn’t reboot from Stack Clash

If you were staying up late to patch your servers when the Stack Clash vulnerability recently showed up then you are not alone. However, you could join the select club of super savvy admin superheroes who didn’t have to shut down systems to patch Stack Clash. Stack Clash can be patched without bringing down […]

Tags: Live Patching, Mission Critical, security vulnerability, Stack Clash, zero downtime