Spectre & Meltdown attacks (CVE-2017-5754 CVE-2017-5753 CVE-2017-5715) in Microsoft Azure environment

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Issue

  • What do we need to do to protect our Azure RHEL VMs from Meltdown & Spectre attacks (CVE-2017-5754 CVE-2017-5753 CVE-2017-5715)?
  • I have applied the necessary kernel patches for my Azure RHEL VM but the Spectre And Meltdown Detector keeps flagging the system as vulnerable. Should I be concerned?

Environment

  • Microsoft Azure
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 on Azure
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 on Azure

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