Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm security update

The Red Hat qemu-kvm package, which provides user-space components for KVM virtualization, was updated to address a speculative execution vulnerability known as CVE-2017-5715. This issue involves branch target injection that can allow an unprivileged attacker to read privileged memory across syscall and guest/host boundaries via cache side-channel attacks. The update specifically mitigates the qemu-kvm side of this vulnerability.

• access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0104 (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/security/cve/CVE-2017-5715 (opens in a new tab)
• bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1519780 (opens in a new tab)
• security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2018/rhsa-2018_0104.json (opens in a new tab)

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