[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2018:0030-1: important: Security update for qemu

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for qemu ______________________________________________________________________________

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:0030-1 Rating: important References: #1052825 #1068032 Cross-References: CVE-2017-5715 Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 ______________________________________________________________________________

An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available.

Description:

This update for qemu fixes the following issues:

A new feature was added:

- Support EPYC vCPU type (bsc#1052825 fate#324038)

Also a mitigation for a security problem 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)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP3:Update update project.

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-8=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List:

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

qemu-linux-user-2.9.1-38.1 qemu-linux-user-debuginfo-2.9.1-38.1 qemu-linux-user-debugsource-2.9.1-38.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):

qemu-2.9.1-38.1 qemu-arm-2.9.1-38.1 qemu-arm-debuginfo-2.9.1-38.1 qemu-block-curl-2.9.1-38.1 qemu-block-curl-debuginfo-2.9.1-38.1 qemu-block-dmg-2.9.1-38.1 qemu-block-dmg-debuginfo-2.9.1-38.1 qemu-block-iscsi-2.9.1-38.1 qemu-block-iscsi-debuginfo-2.9.1-38.1 qemu-block-rbd-2.9.1-38.1 qemu-block-rbd-debuginfo-2.9.1-38.1 qemu-block-ssh-2.9.1-38.1 qemu-block-ssh-debuginfo-2.9.1-38.1 qemu-debugsource-2.9.1-38.1 qemu-extra-2.9.1-38.1 qemu-extra-debuginfo-2.9.1-38.1 qemu-guest-agent-2.9.1-38.1 qemu-guest-agent-debuginfo-2.9.1-38.1 qemu-ksm-2.9.1-38.1 qemu-kvm-2.9.1-38.1 qemu-lang-2.9.1-38.1 qemu-ppc-2.9.1-38.1 qemu-ppc-debuginfo-2.9.1-38.1 qemu-s390-2.9.1-38.1 qemu-s390-debuginfo-2.9.1-38.1 qemu-testsuite-2.9.1-38.2 qemu-tools-2.9.1-38.1 qemu-tools-debuginfo-2.9.1-38.1 qemu-x86-2.9.1-38.1 qemu-x86-debuginfo-2.9.1-38.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (noarch):

qemu-ipxe-1.0.0-38.1 qemu-seabios-1.10.2-38.1 qemu-sgabios-8-38.1 qemu-vgabios-1.10.2-38.1

References:

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5715.html https://bugzilla.suse.com/1052825 https://bugzilla.suse.com/1068032