🛡️ SUSE-SU-2021:2862-1 — spectre-meltdown-checker (CVE-2017-5753)

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

Security update for spectre-meltdown-checker

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

Affected software

SUSE-SU-2021:2862-1 is recorded against 1 package.

  • spectre-meltdown-checker (fixed in 0.44-3.6.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 27 August 2021 and last revised on 4 February 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

www.suse.com (Advisory)
bugzilla.suse.com (Report)
www.suse.com (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2021-08-27
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-02-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
spectre-meltdown-checker 0.44-3.6.1

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