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SUSE Linux 12-SP1: 2018:1363-1 Important: Qemu Spectre Mitigation

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Calendar Grey May 22, 2018
Dist Suse Esm H88
Important SUSE enhancement for qemu resolves Spectre security flaws and improves virtualization safeguards.
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available

Summary

This update for qemu fixes several issues. This security issue was fixed: - CVE-2018-3639: Spectre v4 vulnerability mitigation support for KVM guests (bsc#1092885). Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of all prior memory writes are known may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis. This patch permits the new x86 cpu feature flag named "ssbd" to be presented to the guest, given that the host has this feature, and KVM exposes it to the guest as well. For this feature to be enabled please use the qemu commandline -cpu $MODEL,+spec-ctrl,+ssbd so the guest OS can take advantage of the feature. spec-ctrl and ssbd support is also required in the host.

References

#1068032 #1082276 #1092885

Cross- CVE-2017-5715 CVE-2018-3639

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS

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

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3639.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1068032

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1082276

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1092885

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:1363-1
Rating: important

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