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Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) Vulnerabilities [Intel] - Do SVM detect and report on it?

Intel has recently disclosed new 'speculative execution' vulnerabilities that affect millions of computers with Intel processors. Many tech giants already issued a patch, including Microsoft. Software Vulnerability Manager can detect the security f...

RDanailov Community Manager May 16, 2019

Error 1920 during SVM Next Daemon Install

Summary During the installation of the SVM Distribution Daemon (Software Vulnerability Management a.k.a. SVM Next), you cannot pass the configuration of a service account. The installation wizard results in error 1920 yielding an error related to ins...

RDanailov Community Manager Feb 26, 2019

Software Vulnerability Manager accepts only TLS 1.2

Summary On October 24th, 2018 Flexera upgraded its servers to only accept communication using TLS 1.2 security protocol. Synopsis Software Vulnerability Manager solution requires the security configuration of the systems that are being scanned or use...

raslam Flexera Nov 15, 2018

Updates are being applied to machines even though they are not approved in WSUS

SummaryUpdates are being applied to machines even though they are not approved in Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)SymptomsUpdates are being applied to machines even though they are not approved in Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). Usually ...

by nhebrank Wanderer Sep 19, 2018

Agent logging in command-line interface

Summary This article explains the recommended steps to issue log files with the SVM Agent in the command-line interface of Windows, or Linux and Mac terminals. The SVM Agent supports great set of configuration parameters that make it integrate seamle...

rpachevurova Community Manager Jul 05, 2018

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