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Test your applicationsUpgrade RHEL:7
kernel-bootwrapper
to version 0:3.10.0-693.37.4.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2018:2387
.
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-bootwrapper
package and not the kernel-bootwrapper
package as distributed by RHEL
.
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for RHEL:7
relevant fixed versions and status.
Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of all prior memory writes are known may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis, aka Speculative Store Bypass (SSB), Variant 4.