SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : gcc7 (SUSE-SU-2020:3749-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 144100

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update for gcc7 fixes the following issues :

CVE-2020-13844: Added mitigation for aarch64 Straight Line Speculation issue (bsc#1172798)

Enable fortran for the nvptx offload compiler.

Update README.First-for.SuSE.packagers

avoid assembler errors with AVX512 gather and scatter instructions when using -masm=intel.

Backport the aarch64 -moutline-atomics feature and accumulated fixes but not its default enabling. [jsc#SLE-12209, bsc#1167939]

Fixed 32bit libgnat.so link. [bsc#1178675]

Fixed memcpy miscompilation on aarch64. [bsc#1178624, bsc#1178577]

Fixed debug line info for try/catch. [bsc#1178614]

Remove -mbranch-protection=standard (aarch64 flag) when gcc7 is used to build gcc7 (ie when ada is enabled)

Fixed corruption of pass private ->aux via DF. [gcc#94148]

Fixed debug information issue with inlined functions and passed by reference arguments. [gcc#93888]

Fixed binutils release date detection issue.

Fixed register allocation issue with exception handling code on s390x.
[bsc#1161913]

Fixed miscompilation of some atomic code on aarch64. [bsc#1150164]

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE 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 :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-2020-3749=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-2020-3749=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Development-Tools-15-SP3-2020-3749=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15-SP2 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Development-Tools-15-SP2-2020-3749=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15-SP1 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Development-Tools-15-SP1-2020-3749=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP3-2020-3749=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP2 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP2-2020-3749=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP1 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP1-2020-3749=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-2020-3749=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-2020-3749=1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 144100

File Name: suse_SU-2020-3749-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 12/11/2020

Updated: 2/2/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-13844

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cpp7, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cpp7-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cross-nvptx-gcc7, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:cross-nvptx-newlib7-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gcc7, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gcc7-ada, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gcc7-ada-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gcc7-c%2b%2b, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gcc7-c%2b%2b-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gcc7-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gcc7-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gcc7-fortran, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gcc7-fortran-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gcc7-locale, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gcc7-objc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gcc7-objc-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libada7, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libada7-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libasan4, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libasan4-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libasan4-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcilkrts5, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcilkrts5-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libcilkrts5-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgfortran4, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgfortran4-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libgfortran4-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libstdc%2b%2b6-devel-gcc7, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libubsan0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libubsan0-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libubsan0-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/10/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/8/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-13844

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