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Microsoft Security Advisory Notification Issued: September 11, 2018

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Title: Microsoft Security Advisory Notification

Issued: September 11, 2018

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Security Advisories Released or Updated on September 11, 2018 ===================================================================

 

* Microsoft Security Advisory ADV180002

 

 – Title: Guidance to mitigate speculative execution

   side-channel vulnerabilities

 – https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-us/security-guidance/

   advisory/ADV180002

 – Reason for Revision: The following updates have been made:

  1. Microsoft has released security update 4457128 for Windows

   10 Version 1803 for ARM64-based Systems to provide protection

   against CVE-2017-5715. See the Affected Products table for links

   to download and install the update. Note that this update is also

   available via Windows Update. 2. Added FAQ #19 to explain where

   customer can find and install ARM64 firmware that address

   CVE-2017-5715 – Branch target injection (Spectre, Variant 2).

 – Originally posted: January 3, 2018

 – Updated: September 11, 2018

 – Version: 25.0

 

 

* Microsoft Security Advisory ADV180018

 

 – Title: Microsoft guidance to mitigate L1TF variant

 – https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-us/security-guidance/

   advisory/ADV180018

 – Reason for RevisioMicrosoft is announcing the release of

   Monthly Rollup 4458010 and Security Only 4457984 for Windows

   Server 2008 to provide additional protections against the

   speculative execution side-channel vulnerability known as L1

   Terminal Fault (L1TF) that affects IntelB. CoreB. processors and

   IntelB. XeonB. processors (CVE-2018-3620 and CVE-2018-3646).

   Customers running Windows Server 2008 should install either

   4458010 or 4457984 in addition to Security Update 4341832, which

   was released on August 14, 2018. See [Windows Server 2008 SP2

   servicing changes](https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/windowsserver

   /2018/06/12/windows-server-2008-sp2-servicing-changes/) for

   more information. In addition, a note has been added to FAQ #2

   to provide further information regarding enabling the mitigation

   for CVE-2017-5754 (Meltdown).

 – Originally posted: August 14, 2018

 – Updated: September 11, 2018

 – Version: 4.0

 

 

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