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Red Hat Security Advisory: rhev-hypervisor7 security update

Affects Red Hat rhev-hypervisor7Source GCVE Database

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Mentioned vulnerabilities

Severity
High

Rated by Threat Radar

Data as of 14 Nov 2026, 17:45 UTC

What to do

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Red Hat has released updated kernel packages for the rhev-hypervisor7 that provide software mitigations against these speculative execution vulnerabilities. Users should apply these updates to reduce risk. Note that these mitigations may impact system performance. Since the vulnerabilities stem from hardware design, complete remediation is not possible via software alone. No further action beyond applying the vendor-provided updates is indicated.

Description

The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor (rhev-hypervisor7) was updated to mitigate speculative execution vulnerabilities affecting many modern microprocessors. These vulnerabilities, known as Spectre variants CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715, and Meltdown CVE-2017-5754, allow unprivileged attackers to read privileged memory via cache side-channel attacks. The issues stem from hardware design flaws and cannot be fully fixed by software, but kernel updates provide mitigations with potential performance impacts. CVE-2017-5754 specifically affects Intel x86-64 processors; AMD processors are not impacted. Red Hat provided software mitigations in updated kernel packages for this hypervisor environment.

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