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Oracle Linux: CVE-2017-5715: ELSA-2019-4585: qemu security update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

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Oracle Linux: CVE-2017-5715: ELSA-2019-4585: qemu security update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
01/03/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/24/2018
Modified
12/18/2024

Description

Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and indirect branch prediction may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis. An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructions (a commonly used performance optimization). There are three primary variants of the issue which differ in the way the speculative execution can be exploited. Variant CVE-2017-5715 triggers the speculative execution by utilizing branch target injection. It relies on the presence of a precisely-defined instruction sequence in the privileged code as well as the fact that memory accesses may cause allocation into the microprocessor's data cache even for speculatively executed instructions that never actually commit (retire). As a result, an unprivileged attacker could use this flaw to cross the syscall and guest/host boundaries and read privileged memory by conducting targeted cache side-channel attacks.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libvirt
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libvirt-admin
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libvirt-client
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libvirt-daemon
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-config-network
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-interface
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-network
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-secret
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-storage
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-core
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-disk
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-gluster
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-iscsi
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-logical
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-mpath
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-rbd
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-scsi
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-kvm
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libvirt-daemon-lxc
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libvirt-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libvirt-docs
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libvirt-libs
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libvirt-lock-sanlock
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libvirt-login-shell
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-libvirt-nss

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