Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm-rhev security update

The qemu-kvm-rhev packages in Red Hat provide user-space components for running KVM virtual machines. A security issue related to speculative execution vulnerabilities (specifically CVE-2017-5715) affects these components. This flaw allows an unprivileged attacker to potentially read privileged memory by exploiting branch target injection and cache side-channel attacks. This vulnerability is part of the broader industry-wide speculative execution issues reported by Google Project Zero.

• access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0059 (opens in a new tab)
• access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/ (opens in a new tab)
• access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/speculativeexecution (opens in a new tab)
• access.redhat.com/solutions/3307851 (opens in a new tab)
• access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5715 (opens in a new tab)
• bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1519780 (opens in a new tab)
• bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1525500 (opens in a new tab)
• security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2018/rhsa-2018_0059.json (opens in a new tab)

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