openSUSE: 2021:2861-1 moderate: spectre-meltdown-checker
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
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 15.3: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.3-2021-2861=1
Package List
- openSUSE Leap 15.3 (x86_64): spectre-meltdown-checker-0.44-3.6.1
References
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5753.html https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189477