SUSE-SU-2019:3340-1

Vulnerability from csaf_suse - Published: 2019-12-19 07:25 - Updated: 2026-09-20 13:23
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: - version 0.43 - 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
Patchnames: SUSE-2019-3340,SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2019-3340
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-2018-12207
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5:spectre-meltdown-checker-0:0.43-3.3.1.x86_64 —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5:spectre-meltdown-checker-0:0.43-3.3.1.x86_64 —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5:spectre-meltdown-checker-0:0.43-3.3.1.x86_64 —
Vendor Fix
Threats
Impact moderate
CVE-2019-11135
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected products
Recommended 3 products, the same list as for CVE-2018-12207
Threats
Impact moderate
References
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