Wednesday, 3rd Jan 2018, Google Project Zero announced the discovery of the Meltdown (CVE-2017-5754) and Spectre (CVE-2017-5753 & CVE-2017-5715) processor vulnerabilities.
We have determined that these vulnerabilities will impact the following Live Assist products shipped as an OVA image:
- Supervisor Assist, all versions.
CaféX is actively patching Supervisor Assist to mitigate all vulnerabilities and should release a patched version by the end of Jan 2018.
In the meantime customers are able to patch the OS and hypervisor themselves as follows:
OS
yum update kernel microcode_ctl linux-firmware
hypervisor
As per hypervisor vendor instructions.
NOTE - please remember to reboot your VM once the updates are complete.
If you require further information please contact Customer Support.
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