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Red Hat Security Advisory: rhvm-appliance security update

Affects Red Hat rhvm-applianceSource 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-based mitigations for these hardware vulnerabilities. Users should apply these updates to reduce risk, understanding that complete remediation is not possible due to the hardware nature of the flaws. The mitigations may incur a performance penalty. No additional action is required beyond applying the vendor-provided updates.

Description

This advisory addresses speculative execution vulnerabilities affecting the Red Hat Virtualization Manager appliance. These hardware-level flaws allow unprivileged attackers to read privileged memory via cache side-channel attacks. Software mitigations are provided but cannot fully fix the hardware issue and may impact performance. The affected variants are CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715, and CVE-2017-5754, with the latter affecting only Intel x86-64 processors.

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