openSUSE Security Update: Security update for qemu
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Announcement ID:    openSUSE-SU-2018:0030-1
Rating:             important
References:         #1052825 #1068032 
Cross-References:   CVE-2017-5715
Affected Products:
                    openSUSE Leap 42.3
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   An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata
   is now available.

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.


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-1.0.0-38.1
      qemu-seabios-1.10.2-38.1
      qemu-sgabios-8-38.1
      qemu-vgabios-1.10.2-38.1


References:

   https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5715.html
   https://bugzilla.suse.com/1052825
   https://bugzilla.suse.com/1068032