Meltdown and Spectre update for WildFire-500 Appliance

Palo Alto Networks has determined that the WildFire-500 (WF-500) appliance is affected by the vulnerability disclosures known as Meltdown and Spectre, and has completed an update to address these issues. The WF-500 software update is now available to customers that use the WF-500 appliance for on-premise sandboxing. Please note that customers using the WildFire cloud service are NOT impacted by this advisory. (PAN-91139/CVE-2017-5715)
Successful exploitation of this issue may allow reads from the guest image to the host residing in a sandbox appliance. The analysis method utilized by the WF-500 mitigates the impact of this issue.
This issue affects WF-500 (WildFire Appliance) running appliance software versions 8.0.9 and earlier; all versions of 7.1, 7.0, and 6.1. Please note: WF-500 appliance software versions 8.1.0 and later are not impacted by this advisory.

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Customers not using the WF-500 WildFire Appliance are not impacted by this advisory. Customers using the WildFire cloud are not impacted by this advisory.