openSUSE Security Update: Security update for spectre-meltdown-checker ______________________________________________________________________________

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:1212-1 Rating: moderate References: #1189477 Cross-References: 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: openSUSE Leap 15.2 ______________________________________________________________________________

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 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