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Intel processor users should apply zombieload V2 security patch as soon as possible

(via softmedia)

The red hat security team identified these vulnerabilities as important and believed that they would have an impact on security. If the attacker succeeds, the system will open the read permission of sensitive data to him, affecting all supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating systems.

Red hat is aware of a microarchitecture (hardware) implementation vulnerability that may cause Unauthorized Local attackers to bypass normal system security mechanisms and cause system wide denial of service. At present, we only know that the vulnerability will affect Intel's processor, but because the defect exists at the hardware level, we need to implement kernel level repair and update. This issue affects all distributions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and earlier.

Although red hat doesn't think there is a big problem with its own configuration, it is recommended that the affected customers patch it in the first time.

Since a new Linux kernel version has been released today that can alleviate Intel CPU security vulnerabilities, other user favorite GNU / Linux distributions will also be pushed in the stable software repository soon.