[CentOS-virt] CESA-2018:1655 Important: qemu-kvm-ev security update

Thu May 24 11:51:58 UTC 2018
Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo at redhat.com>

2018-05-24 13:38 GMT+02:00 Karanbir Singh <kbsingh at redhat.com>:

> On 24/05/18 11:53, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> > On 24/05/18 11:18, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> 2018-05-24 3:18 GMT+02:00 Karanbir Singh <kbsingh at redhat.com
> >> <mailto:kbsingh at redhat.com>>:
> >>
> >>     On 23/05/18 06:56, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:
> >>     > CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2018:1655 Important
> >>     >
> >>     > Upstream details at: https://access.redhat.com/
> errata/RHSA-2018:1655
> >>     <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1655>
> >>     >
> >>     > This is the qemu-kvm-ev side of the CVE-2018-3639 mitigation.
> >>     >
> >>     > qemu-kvm-ev-2.10.0-21.el7_5.3.1
> >>     > <http://cbs.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=22813
> >>     <http://cbs.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=22813>> has been
> >>     tagged for
> >>     > release yesterday morning and should land on mirrors this morning.
> >>     > Johnny, Brian, Karanbir, please cross check it's being published,
> I
> >>     > would have expected it to be already on mirrors.
> >>     >
> >>     > Thanks,
> >>     > --
> >>     >
> >>     > SANDRO BONAZZOLA
> >>     >
> >>     > ASSOCIATE MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA ENG VIRTUALIZATION
> R&D
> >>     >
> >>     > Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/>
> >>     >
> >>     > sbonazzo at redhat.com <mailto:sbonazzo at redhat.com>
> >>     <mailto:sbonazzo at redhat.com <mailto:sbonazzo at redhat.com>>
> >>     >
> >>     > <https://red.ht/sig>
> >>     > <https://redhat.com/summit>
> >>     >
> >>
> >>     With all the noise around this specific package, i went and looked
> and
> >>     its in the queue for push, should be in the packages for Thu 24th
> >>
> >>
> >> Looks like it's not yet published.
> >> Also altarch is still broken https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=14835
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > yeah, this is down to how the various arch bits were pushed out of sync;
> > we got cut both ways, either if we do x86_64 on its own or we dont,
> >
> > i am working on sig content right now, so let me go look at this as well
> >
> >
>
> the sign runs are now running cleanly for altarch as well, it looks like
> the mirrors caught up in sync with those in the last day or so. its
> going to run for a bit though, I'll keep an eye on things.
>
> w.r.t the CVE note - just want to point out that I've been told that
> lacking the vendor supplied microcode this fix's in this code do not
> really help much. And there is no vendor microcode as yet. Is that an
> accurate state of play ?
>

AFAIK Intel released a beta microcode to OEMs so individual hardware
vendors should be providing it through their support pages after testing
with their hardware.



>
>
> --
> Karanbir Singh <kbsingh at redhat.com> | London, UK
> Project Lead, The CentOS Project
> Consulting Engineer, https://openshift.io/
>
>


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SANDRO BONAZZOLA

ASSOCIATE MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA ENG VIRTUALIZATION R&D

Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/>

sbonazzo at redhat.com
<https://red.ht/sig>
<https://redhat.com/summit>
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