Kaspersky Threats

Detect date

?

06/13/2018

Severity

?

Warning

Description

Microsoft released an advisory and security updates related to a newly-discovered class of hardware vulnerabilities (known as Spectre and Meltdown). An additional vulnerability involving side channel speculative execution has been announced and assigned CVE-2018-3665.

An attacker locally could cause information stored in FP (Floating Point), MMX, and SSE register state to be disclosed across security boundaries on Intel Core family CPUs through speculative execution. An attacker must be able to execute code locally on a system in order to exploit this vulnerability, similar to the other speculative execution vulnerabilities.

Affected products

Windows 10
Windows 8
Windows 7
Windows Server 2008
Windows Server 2012

Solution

Install necessary updates from the KB section, that are listed in your Windows Update (Windows Update usually can be accessed from the Control Panel)

Original advisories

ADV180016

Detect date ?	06/13/2018
Severity ?	Warning
Description	Microsoft released an advisory and security updates related to a newly-discovered class of hardware vulnerabilities (known as Spectre and Meltdown). An additional vulnerability involving side channel speculative execution has been announced and assigned CVE-2018-3665. An attacker locally could cause information stored in FP (Floating Point), MMX, and SSE register state to be disclosed across security boundaries on Intel Core family CPUs through speculative execution. An attacker must be able to execute code locally on a system in order to exploit this vulnerability, similar to the other speculative execution vulnerabilities.
Affected products	Windows 10 Windows 8 Windows 7 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2012
Solution	Install necessary updates from the KB section, that are listed in your Windows Update (Windows Update usually can be accessed from the Control Panel)
Original advisories	ADV180016
Related products	Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows Server Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Microsoft Windows 8 Microsoft Windows 7 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Microsoft Windows 10
KB list	4338818 4338823 4345459 4338821 4343899 4343900 4341832
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KLA11891Microsoft Advisory for Microsoft Products (ESU)

KLA11891
Microsoft Advisory for Microsoft Products (ESU)