openSUSE Security Update: Security update for spectre-meltdown-checker
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:2710-1
Rating: moderate
References: #1117665 #1139073
Cross-References: CVE-2018-12207 CVE-2019-11135
Affected Products:
openSUSE Leap 15.1
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An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.
Description:
This update for spectre-meltdown-checker fixes the following issues:
– feat: implement TAA detection (CVE-2019-11135 bsc#1139073)
– feat: implement MCEPSC / iTLB Multihit detection (CVE-2018-12207
bsc#1117665)
– feat: taa: add TSX_CTRL MSR detection in hardware info
– feat: fwdb: use both Intel GitHub repo and MCEdb to build our firmware
version database
– feat: use –live with –kernel/–config/–map to override file
detection in live mode
– enh: rework the vuln logic of MDS with –paranoid (fixes #307)
– enh: explain that Enhanced IBRS is better for performance than classic
IBRS
– enh: kernel: autodetect customized arch kernels from cmdline
– enh: kernel decompression: better tolerance against missing tools
– enh: mock: implement reading from /proc/cmdline
– fix: variant3a: Silvermont CPUs are not vulnerable to variant 3a
– fix: lockdown: detect Red Hat locked down kernels (impacts MSR writes)
– fix: lockdown: detect locked down mode in vanilla 5.4+ kernels
– fix: sgx: on locked down kernels, fallback to CPUID bit for detection
– fix: fwdb: builtin version takes precedence if the local cached
version is older
– fix: pteinv: don’t check kernel image if not available
– fix: silence useless error from grep (fixes #322)
– fix: msr: fix msr module detection under Ubuntu 19.10 (fixes #316)
– fix: mocking value for read_msr
– chore: rename mcedb cmdline parameters to fwdb, and change db version
scheme
– chore: fwdb: update to v130.20191104+i20191027
– chore: add GitHub check workflow
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 15.1:
zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2019-2710=1
Package List:
– openSUSE Leap 15.1 (x86_64):
spectre-meltdown-checker-0.43-lp151.3.3.1
References:
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12207.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11135.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1117665
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1139073
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