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openSUSE 15.2: 2021:1212-1 Moderate: Spectre-Meltdown-Checker Update

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Calendar Grey August 30, 2021
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openSUSE Security Notice: Security patch for spectre-meltdown-checker. Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:1213-1
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for spectre-meltdown-checker fixes the following issues:

spectre-meltdown-checker was updated to version 0.44 (bsc#1189477)

- feat: add support for SRBDS related vulnerabilities

- feat: add zstd kernel decompression (#370)

- enh: arm: add experimental support for binary arm images

- enh: rsb filling: no longer need the 'strings' tool to check for kernel

support in live mode

- fix: fwdb: remove Intel extract tempdir on exit

- fix: has_vmm: ignore kernel threads when looking for a hypervisor (fixes

#278)

- fix: fwdb: use the commit date as the intel fwdb version

- fix: fwdb: update Intel's repository URL

- fix: arm64: CVE-2017-5753: kernels 4.19+ use a different nospec macro

- fix: on CPU parse info under FreeBSD

- chore: github: add check run on pull requests

- chore: fwdb: update to v165.20201021+i20200616

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP1:Update update project.

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 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-1212=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

spectre-meltdown-checker-0.44-lp152.2.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5753.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189477

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:1212-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 .

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