SUSE: Important KVM Security Fixes Released for 2018:0039-1 Update
suse
January 8, 2018
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.
Summary
This update for kvm fixes the following issues: A security flaw mitigation 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) Also a security fix has been applied: - CVE-2017-2633: Fix various out of bounds access issues in the QEMU vnc infrastructure (bsc#1026612) Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3-LTSS: zypper in -t patch slessp3-kvm-13397=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3: zypper in -t patch sleposp3-kvm-13397=1 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List:
Topics Covered
References
#1026612 #1068032
Cross- CVE-2017-2633 CVE-2017-5715
Affected Products:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3-LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-2633.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5715.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1026612
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1068032
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:0039-1
Rating: important
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