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openSUSE Leap 42.3: Security Update for Spectre Variant 2 Mitigation

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Calendar Grey March 20, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Mitigating Spectre Variant 2 vulnerabilities in openSUSE Leap 42.3 involves applying vital KMP updates and crucial security patches to strengthen system integrity and resilience
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

The Spectre Variant 2 in the Linux Kernel is mitigated using "retpolines".

This update rebuilds all openSUSE Leap 42.3 KMPs to use "retpolines" and

so be able to mitigate the Spectre v2 attack. (bsc#1068032 CVE-2017-5715)

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Topics Covered

security advisory important patch instructions openSUSE Leap spectre kmp fixes

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-284=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

crash-7.1.8-6.1

crash-debuginfo-7.1.8-6.1

crash-debugsource-7.1.8-6.1

crash-devel-7.1.8-6.1

crash-doc-7.1.8-6.1

crash-eppic-7.1.8-6.1

crash-eppic-debuginfo-7.1.8-6.1

crash-gcore-7.1.8-6.1

crash-gcore-debuginfo-7.1.8-6.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):

bbswitch-0.8-12.2.1

bbswitch-debugsource-0.8-12.2.1

bbswitch-kmp-default-0.8_k4.4.114_42-12.2.1

bbswitch-kmp-default-debuginfo-0.8_k4.4.114_42-12.2.1

crash-kmp-default-7.1.8_k4.4.114_42-6.1

crash-kmp-default-debuginfo-7.1.8_k4.4.114_42-6.1

dpdk-16.11.1-6.2.1

dpdk-debuginfo-16.11.1-6.2.1

dpdk-debugsource-16.11.1-6.2.1

dpdk-devel-16.11.1-6.2.1

dpdk-devel-debuginfo-16.11.1-6.2.1

dpdk-examples-16.11.1-6.2.1

dpdk-examples-debuginfo-16.11.1-6.2.1

dpdk-kmp-default-16.11.1_k4.4.114_42-6.2.1

dpdk-kmp-default-debuginfo-16.11.1_k4.4.114_42-6.2.1

dpdk-tools-16.11.1-6.2.1

drbd-9.0.8+git.c8bc3670-2.2.1

drbd-debugsource-9.0.8+git.c8bc3670-2.2.1

drbd-kmp-default-9.0.8+git.c8bc3670_k4.4.114_42-2.2.1

drbd-kmp-default-debuginfo-9.0.8+git.c8bc3670_k4.4....

Read the Full Advisory

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5715.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1068032

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:0745-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3

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Topics Covered

security advisory important patch instructions openSUSE Leap spectre kmp fixes

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