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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4: 2018:1077-1 Crucial KVM Spectre Fix

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Calendar Grey April 25, 2018
Dist Suse Esm H88
The latest patch introduces critical enhancements for KVM, tackling various security issues, notably those related to Spectre exploits.
An update that solves four vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

Summary

This update for kvm fixes the following issues: - This update has the next round of Spectre v2 related patches, which now integrates with corresponding changes in libvirt. A January 2018 release of qemu initially addressed the Spectre v2 vulnerability for KVM guests by exposing the spec-ctrl feature for all x86 vcpu types, which was the quick and dirty approach, but not the proper solution. We remove that initial patch and now rely on patches from upstream. This update defines spec_ctrl and ibpb cpu feature flags as well as new cpu models which are clones of existing models with either -IBRS or -IBPB added to the end of the model name. These new vcpu models explicitly include the new feature(s), whereas the feature flags can be added to the cpu parameter as with other features. In short, for continued Spectre v2 protection,

References

#1068032 #1076114 #1076179 #1082276 #1083291

Cross- CVE-2017-18030 CVE-2017-5715 CVE-2018-5683

CVE-2018-7550

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-18030.html

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

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5683.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-7550.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1068032

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1076114

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1076179

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1082276

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1083291

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:1077-1
Rating: important

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