[CentOS-virt] CentOS-virt - Kernel Side-Channel Attacks

Thu Jan 4 18:49:42 UTC 2018
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 9:51 AM, <rikske at deds.nl> wrote:

> Please patch the CentOS-virt Kernel to fix the
> Kernel Side-Channel Attacks vulnerabilities.
>
> The latest CentOS-virt kernel was released in November, as seen below.
>
> kernel-4.9.63-29.el7.x86_64.rpm 2017-11-21 13:30
>
> https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/speculativeexecution
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/virt/x86_64/xen/
>

​As far as I can see, the patches for ​
KAISER (Kernel Address
​ ​Isolation to have Side-channels Efficiently Removed) will appear in
kernel 4.9.75. Looks like it will be released soon upstream (kernel.org).

Akemi
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