Vulnerability from csaf_suse
Published
2018-01-04 12:57
Modified
2018-01-04 12:57
Summary
Security update for kvm

Notes

Title of the patch
Security update for kvm
Description of the patch
This update for kvm fixes the following issues: Also 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) Security fixes have been applied: - CVE-2017-2633: Fix various out of bounds access issues in the QEMU vnc infrastructure (bsc#1026612)
Patchnames
slessp4-kvm-13393
Terms of use
CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).


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}


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