| Revision Date: | 2018-06-26 | Version: | 636 |
| Title: | RHSA-2018:2001: 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 that includes support for guests running on hosts with AMD processors.
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-2018:2001
RHSA-2018:2001-00
RHSA-2018:2001-01
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| Platform(s): | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
| Product(s): | |
| Definition Synopsis |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux must be installed OR Package Information
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 is installed
AND
qemu-img is earlier than 10:1.5.3-156.el7_5.3
AND qemu-img is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
qemu-kvm is earlier than 10:1.5.3-156.el7_5.3
AND qemu-kvm is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
qemu-kvm-common is earlier than 10:1.5.3-156.el7_5.3
AND qemu-kvm-common is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
qemu-kvm-tools is earlier than 10:1.5.3-156.el7_5.3
AND qemu-kvm-tools is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
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