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Red Hat Security Advisory: redhat-virtualization-host security update

Affects Red Hat redhat-virtualization-hostSource GCVE Database

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Mentioned vulnerabilities

Severity
High

Rated by Threat Radar

Data as of 13 Nov 2026, 18:31 UTC

What to do

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Red Hat has released updated kernel packages that provide software mitigations for these hardware vulnerabilities. Users should apply these updates to their Red Hat Virtualization Hosts to reduce exposure. Note that these mitigations may cause a performance penalty. Since the issue is hardware-based, complete remediation is not possible via software alone. No additional action beyond applying the vendor-provided updates is indicated.

Description

This advisory addresses speculative execution vulnerabilities affecting Red Hat Virtualization Hosts (RHVH) related to the Spectre and Meltdown class of hardware flaws. These vulnerabilities arise from microprocessor design issues that allow unprivileged attackers to read privileged memory via cache side-channel attacks. The affected variants include CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715, and CVE-2017-5754, impacting Intel x86-64 processors but not AMD x86-64 processors. Software mitigations are provided through updated kernel packages, though they cannot fully fix the hardware issue and may incur performance penalties.

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