[Secure-testing-commits] [Git][security-tracker-team/security-tracker][master] Add note on CVE-2017-5715 for qemu

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Salvatore Bonaccorso pushed to branch master at Debian Security Tracker / security-tracker


Commits:
13653c17 by Salvatore Bonaccorso at 2018-01-07T13:22:23+01:00
Add note on CVE-2017-5715 for qemu

Add a note on Qemu update. To protect from CVE-2017-5715 one would need
to have an 1/ intel / amd cpu microcode update, 2/ a qemu update to pass
new MSR and CPU flags from the microcode update 3/ host kernel update.

Refer to the relevant part for Qemu:

https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-01/msg00811.html

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1 changed file:

- data/CVE/list


Changes:

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data/CVE/list
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--- a/data/CVE/list
+++ b/data/CVE/list
@@ -47861,7 +47861,10 @@ CVE-2017-5715 (Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and 
 	NOTE: intel-microcode: https://bugs.debian.org/886367
 	NOTE: intel-microcode: Some microcode updates to partially adress CVE-2017-5715 included in 3.20171215.1
 	NOTE: amd64-microcode: https://bugs.debian.org/886382
-	TODO: check, qemu/qemu-kvm and intel-microcode and amd64-microcode need as well to be tracked
+	NOTE: Qemu patches: https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-01/msg00811.html
+	NOTE: to pass thorugh new MSR and CPUID flags from the host VM to the CPU, to
+	NOTE: allow (future) enabling/disabling ranch prediction features in the Intel
+	NOTE: CPU.
 CVE-2017-5714
 	RESERVED
 CVE-2017-5713



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