Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat CloudForms 4.1 security update
Affects Red HatSource GCVE Database
Mentioned vulnerabilities
Rated by Threat Radar
Data as of 14 Nov 2026, 17:46 UTC
What to do
AI-suggested
Red Hat has released updated kernel packages providing software mitigations for these vulnerabilities on x86-64 architectures. Users should apply these security updates to reduce risk. Since the vulnerabilities are hardware-based, the mitigations cannot fully eliminate the risk but significantly reduce it. The update may cause a performance impact. No additional action beyond applying the provided kernel updates is indicated.
Description
This advisory addresses speculative execution vulnerabilities affecting the Linux kernel used in Red Hat CloudForms 4.1 virtual machines. The vulnerabilities, known as Spectre and Meltdown variants (CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5754), allow unprivileged attackers to read privileged memory via cache side-channel attacks. These issues stem from hardware design flaws in modern microprocessors and cannot be fully fixed by software alone. The update provides software mitigations for x86-64 architectures, which may impact system performance.
References
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0089 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/ (opens in a new tab)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1519778 (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=1519781 (opens in a new tab)
- security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2018/rhsa-2018_0089.json (opens in a new tab)