File _patchinfo of Package patchinfo.13588
<patchinfo incident="13588">
<issue tracker="cve" id="2019-11135"/>
<issue tracker="cve" id="2018-12207"/>
<issue tracker="bnc" id="1117665">EMU: VUL-0: CVE-2018-12207: kernel-source: Machine Check Error Avoidance on Page Size Change (aka IFU issue)</issue>
<issue tracker="bnc" id="1139073">EMU: VUL-0: CVE-2019-11135: November 2019 CPU issue aka "TSX Asynchronous Abort (TAA)"</issue>
<packager>msmeissn</packager>
<rating>moderate</rating>
<category>security</category>
<summary>Security update for spectre-meltdown-checker</summary>
<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
</description>
</patchinfo>