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SUSE: 2020:3749-1 Moderate: Mitigation for aarch64 Speculation

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Calendar Grey December 10, 2020
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE has released a security update for gcc7, which tackles a single vulnerability and includes seven important corrections categorized with moderate severity.
An update that solves one vulnerability, contains one feature and has 7 fixes is now available

Summary

This update for gcc7 fixes the following issues: - CVE-2020-13844: Added mitigation for aarch64 Straight Line Speculation issue (bsc#1172798) - Enable fortran for the nvptx offload compiler. - Update README.First-for.SuSE.packagers - avoid assembler errors with AVX512 gather and scatter instructions when using -masm=intel. - Backport the aarch64 -moutline-atomics feature and accumulated fixes but not its default enabling. [jsc#SLE-12209, bsc#1167939] - Fixed 32bit libgnat.so link. [bsc#1178675] - Fixed memcpy miscompilation on aarch64. [bsc#1178624, bsc#1178577] - Fixed debug line info for try/catch. [bsc#1178614] - Remove -mbranch-protection=standard (aarch64 flag) when gcc7 is used to build gcc7 (ie when ada is enabled) - Fixed corruption of pass private ->aux via DF. [gcc#94148]

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update development tools fix SUSE suse mitigation gcc gcc7 feature

References

#1150164 #1161913 #1167939 #1172798 #1178577

#1178614 #1178624 #1178675 SLE-12209

Cross- CVE-2020-13844

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-13844.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1150164

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1161913

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2020:3749-1
Rating: moderate

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update development tools fix SUSE suse mitigation gcc gcc7 feature

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