File _patchinfo of Package patchinfo.7880

<patchinfo incident="7880">
  <packager>rguenther</packager>
  <issue tracker="bnc" id="1083946">SLES15 - Include CVE Spectre V2 mitigation patch for GCC on s390x</issue>
  <issue tracker="bnc" id="1083290">gcc7: chromium fails to build</issue>
  <issue tracker="bnc" id="1074621">VUL-0: gcc: retpoline fixes for speculative side channel attacks on various CPU platforms aka "SpectreAttack" and "MeltdownAttack"</issue>
  <category>recommended</category>
  <rating>moderate</rating>
  <summary>Recommended update for gcc7</summary>
  <description>This update for gcc7 to 7.3 contains a number of fixes and improvements.

The following features were added:

Mitigations for Spectre Variant 2:
- retpoline support via -mindirect-branch=, -mfunction-return= and friends was added which
  can be used to mitigate Spectre Variant 2.2.
  
  This feature was implemented for x86 (bnc#1074621) and also for the IBM Z platform (bnc#1083946).

The following issues were fixed:

- nvptx offload target compiler install issues
- newlib parts split into cross-nvptx-newlib7-devel
- Chromium build failures (bnc#1083290)

</description>
</patchinfo>