RHEL instances show a RETBleed warning when running on AWS or Azure
Issue
- How is RHEL on Azure affected by RETBleed?
- The following warning is seen on RHEL instances:
Spectre v2 mitigation leaves CPU vulnerable to RETBleed attacks, data leaks possible!
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7, 8.8, 9.1
- Microsoft Azure
- Amazon AWS
- VMware VMs
- Hyper-threaded instances
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