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On 2018-08-15 03:58, Andrew David Wong wrote:
> On 2018-08-14 21:38, Sphere wrote:
>> CVE-2018-3646 in particular is alarming:
>> "The third flaw, CVE-2018-3646, has a CVSS Base Score of 7.1 and enables bad 
>> actors to attack virtual machines (VM), via virtualization software and 
>> Virtual Machine Monitors (VMMs) running on Intel processors. A malicious 
>> guest VM could infer the values of data in the VMM’s memory."
> 
>> Could potentially allow Untrusted VMs to attack safe VMs but I don't know 
>> for sure whether or not Qubes mitigates this.
> 
> 
> CVE-2018-3620 and CVE-2018-3646 are XSA-273 [1], which was released
> yesterday without embargo. We won't have an official statement about
> whether or how this affects Qubes until the Qubes Security Team (QST)
> has had a chance to assess it. Both members of the QST are currently out
> of the office (completely offline, one on sabbatical and one on
> vacation), with one scheduled to return at the end of the month, so
> that's probably the earliest we'll know.
> 
> XSAs 268-273 were all publicly released on 2018-08-14. 268-272 went
> through the normal predisclosure process, so the QST was able to
> evaluate them before they left. Consequently, we've published official
> statements regarding XSAs 268-272. [2][3] By contrast, XSA-273 skipped
> predisclosure, so the QST didn't get a chance to see it before they
> left.
> 
> [1] https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-273.html
> [2] https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2018/08/14/qsb-42/
> [3] 
> https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2018/08/14/xsa-268-269-271-272-qubes-not-affected/
> 

Update:

We have now published QSB #43: L1 Terminal Fault speculative side
channel (XSA-273).

https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2018/09/02/qsb-43/

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Andrew David Wong (Axon)
Community Manager, Qubes OS
https://www.qubes-os.org

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