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SUSE: 2021:2861-1 Moderate: Spectre-Meltdown-Checker Security Update

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Calendar Grey August 27, 2021
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SUSE Security Patch: Tackling vulnerabilities in spectre-meltdown-checker to strengthen overall system security.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

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

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate system update SUSE Linux Enterprise spectre-meltdown-checker

References

#1189477

Cross- CVE-2017-5753

CVSS scores:

CVE-2017-5753 (NVD) : 5.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVE-2017-5753 (SUSE): 7.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected Products:

SUSE Manager Server 4.0

SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.0

SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-SP1-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-SP1-BCL

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-SP1-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-SP1-ESPOS

SUSE Enterprise Storage 6

SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2021:2861-1
Rating: moderate

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate system update SUSE Linux Enterprise spectre-meltdown-checker

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