Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm security update

The qemu-kvm package in Red Hat provides the user-space component for running virtual machines using Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM). A security issue related to speculative execution vulnerabilities (specifically CVE-2017-5715) affects this component, allowing an unprivileged attacker to potentially read privileged memory across syscall and guest/host boundaries via cache side-channel attacks. This vulnerability is part of the broader industry-wide speculative execution flaws. Red Hat has issued a security advisory addressing the qemu-kvm side of this vulnerability.

• access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0105 (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_0105.json (opens in a new tab)

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