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openSUSE: 2018:2237-1 Moderate: Information Disclosure Risk Mitigated

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Calendar Grey August 7, 2018
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The recent patch for the openSUSE kernel-firmware addresses a critical flaw, safeguarding against potential leaks of sensitive data.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for kernel-firmware to version 20180525 fixes the following

issues:

This security issue was fixed:

- CVE-2017-5715: Prevent unauthorized disclosure of information to an

attacker with local user access caused by speculative execution and

indirect branch prediction (bsc#1095735)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security patch information disclosure openSUSE kernel-firmware

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.0:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-825=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (noarch):

kernel-firmware-20180525-lp150.2.3.1

ucode-amd-20180525-lp150.2.3.1

References

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

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1095735

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:2237-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.0

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security patch information disclosure openSUSE kernel-firmware

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