VMSA-2018-0007.1 – VMware Virtual Appliance updates address side-channel analysis due to speculative execution

Greetings from the VMware Security Response Center! We thought we should post an explanation of today’s changes to VMSA-2018-0007 as we have removed CVE-2017-5715 from the advisory. The reason we have done this is to clarify which of these issues have been mitigated against currently known variants of the different vulnerabilities. Because CVE-2017-5753 (Meltdown) is […]The post VMSA-2018-0007.1 – VMware Virtual Appliance updates address side-channel analysis due to More info: https://blogs.vmware.com/security/2018/02/vmsa-2018-0007-1-vmware-virtual-appliance-updates-address-side-channel-analysis-due-speculative-execution.html

VMSA-2018-0007.1 – VMware Virtual Appliance updates address side-channel analysis due to speculative execution

Greetings from the VMware Security Response Center! We thought we should post an explanation of today’s changes to VMSA-2018-0007 as we have removed CVE-2017-5715 from the advisory. The reason we have done this is to clarify which of these issues have been mitigated against currently known variants of the different vulnerabilities. Because CVE-2017-5753 (Meltdown) is […]The post VMSA-2018-0007.1 – VMware Virtual Appliance updates address side-channel analysis due to More info: https://blogs.vmware.com/security/2018/02/vmsa-2018-0007-1-vmware-virtual-appliance-updates-address-side-channel-analysis-due-speculative-execution.html
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