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openSUSE Leap 42.3: 2018:0030-1 Important: QEMU Security Issue

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Calendar Grey January 5, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
This release fixes a critical bug in qemu for openSUSE and provides guidance on applying system updates. Discover additional details here.
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Description

This update for qemu fixes the following issues:

A new feature was added:

- Support EPYC vCPU type (bsc#1052825 fate#324038)

Also a mitigation for a security problem has been applied:

- CVE-2017-5715: QEMU was updated to allow passing through new MSR and

CPUID flags from the host VM to the CPU, to allow enabling/disabling

branch prediction features in the Intel CPU. (bsc#1068032)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP3:Update update project.

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Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-8=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

qemu-linux-user-2.9.1-38.1

qemu-linux-user-debuginfo-2.9.1-38.1

qemu-linux-user-debugsource-2.9.1-38.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):

qemu-2.9.1-38.1

qemu-arm-2.9.1-38.1

qemu-arm-debuginfo-2.9.1-38.1

qemu-block-curl-2.9.1-38.1

qemu-block-curl-debuginfo-2.9.1-38.1

qemu-block-dmg-2.9.1-38.1

qemu-block-dmg-debuginfo-2.9.1-38.1

qemu-block-iscsi-2.9.1-38.1

qemu-block-iscsi-debuginfo-2.9.1-38.1

qemu-block-rbd-2.9.1-38.1

qemu-block-rbd-debuginfo-2.9.1-38.1

qemu-block-ssh-2.9.1-38.1

qemu-block-ssh-debuginfo-2.9.1-38.1

qemu-debugsource-2.9.1-38.1

qemu-extra-2.9.1-38.1

qemu-extra-debuginfo-2.9.1-38.1

qemu-guest-agent-2.9.1-38.1

qemu-guest-agent-debuginfo-2.9.1-38.1

qemu-ksm-2.9.1-38.1

qemu-kvm-2.9.1-38.1

qemu-lang-2.9.1-38.1

qemu-ppc-2.9.1-38.1

qemu-ppc-debuginfo-2.9.1-38.1

qemu-s390-2.9.1-38.1

qemu-s390-debuginfo-2.9.1-38.1

qemu-testsuite-2.9.1-38.2

qemu-tools-2.9.1-38.1

qemu-tools-debuginfo-2.9.1-38.1

qemu-x86-2.9.1-38.1

qemu-x86-debuginfo-2.9.1-38.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (noarch):

qemu-ipxe-1....

Read the Full Advisory

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5715.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1052825

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1068032

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:0030-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3

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