| Revision Date: | 2018-05-21 | Version: | 602 |
| Title: | RHSA-2018:1663: qemu-kvm security update (Important) |
| Description: | Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM.
Security Fix(es):
An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of Load & Store instructions (a commonly used performance optimization). It relies on the presence of a precisely-defined instruction sequence in the privileged code as well as the fact that memory read from address to which a recent memory write has occurred may see an older value and subsequently cause an update into the microprocessor's data cache even for speculatively executed instructions that never actually commit (retire). As a result, an unprivileged attacker could use this flaw to read privileged memory by conducting targeted cache side-channel attacks. (CVE-2018-3639)
Note: This is the qemu-kvm side of the CVE-2018-3639 mitigation.
Red Hat would like to thank Ken Johnson (Microsoft Security Response Center) and Jann Horn (Google Project Zero) for reporting this issue.
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| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Status: | | Reference(s): | CVE-2018-3639
RHSA-2018:1663-00
RHSA-2018:1663-01
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| Platform(s): | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Extended Update Support
| Product(s): | |
| Definition Synopsis |
| Release Information Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Client is installed
OR Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Server is installed
OR Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Workstation is installed
OR Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ComputeNode is installed
AND Package Information
qemu-img is earlier than 10:1.5.3-141.el7_4.7
AND qemu-img is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
OR
qemu-kvm is earlier than 10:1.5.3-141.el7_4.7
AND qemu-kvm is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
OR
qemu-kvm-common is earlier than 10:1.5.3-141.el7_4.7
AND qemu-kvm-common is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
OR
qemu-kvm-tools is earlier than 10:1.5.3-141.el7_4.7
AND qemu-kvm-tools is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
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