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OPENSUSE-SU-2021:2861-1

Vulnerability from csaf_opensuse - Published: 2021-08-27 12:41 - Updated: 2021-08-27 12:41
Summary
Security update for spectre-meltdown-checker
Severity
Moderate
Notes
Title of the patch: Security update for spectre-meltdown-checker
Description of the patch: 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
Patchnames: openSUSE-SLE-15.3-2021-2861
Terms of use: CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).
CVE-2017-5753
5.6 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Unresolved product id: openSUSE Leap 15.3:spectre-meltdown-checker-0.44-3.6.1.x86_64 —
Vendor Fix
Threats
Impact important
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