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openSUSE Leap 42.2: 2018:0059-1 Important QEMU Update for DoS Risk

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Calendar Grey January 10, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A crucial patch for openSUSE tackles a vulnerability in qemu, enhancing system security to defend against risks. Ensure your safety!
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for qemu fixes the following issues:

This update for qemu fixes the following issues:

A mitigation for a security flaw 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-SP2:Update update project.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update important security patch software flaw openSUSE qemu

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 42.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-20=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (i586 x86_64):

qemu-2.6.2-31.18.1

qemu-arm-2.6.2-31.18.1

qemu-arm-debuginfo-2.6.2-31.18.1

qemu-block-curl-2.6.2-31.18.1

qemu-block-curl-debuginfo-2.6.2-31.18.1

qemu-block-dmg-2.6.2-31.18.1

qemu-block-dmg-debuginfo-2.6.2-31.18.1

qemu-block-iscsi-2.6.2-31.18.1

qemu-block-iscsi-debuginfo-2.6.2-31.18.1

qemu-block-ssh-2.6.2-31.18.1

qemu-block-ssh-debuginfo-2.6.2-31.18.1

qemu-debugsource-2.6.2-31.18.1

qemu-extra-2.6.2-31.18.1

qemu-extra-debuginfo-2.6.2-31.18.1

qemu-guest-agent-2.6.2-31.18.1

qemu-guest-agent-debuginfo-2.6.2-31.18.1

qemu-kvm-2.6.2-31.18.1

qemu-lang-2.6.2-31.18.1

qemu-linux-user-2.6.2-31.18.1

qemu-linux-user-debuginfo-2.6.2-31.18.1

qemu-linux-user-debugsource-2.6.2-31.18.1

qemu-ppc-2.6.2-31.18.1

qemu-ppc-debuginfo-2.6.2-31.18.1

qemu-s390-2.6.2-31.18.1

qemu-s390-debuginfo-2.6.2-31.18.1

qemu-testsuite-2.6.2-31.18.1

qemu-tools-2.6.2-31.18.1

qemu-tools-debuginfo-2.6.2-31.18.1

qemu-x86-2.6.2-31.18.1

qemu-x86-debuginfo-2.6.2-31.18.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.2 (x86_64):

qemu-block-rbd-2.6.2-31.18.1

qem...

Read the Full Advisory

References

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

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1068032

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:0059-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.2

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Topics Covered

security advisory update important security patch software flaw openSUSE qemu

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