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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : spectre-meltdown-checker (SUSE-SU-2021:2862-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 152889

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:2862-1 advisory.

 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

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected spectre-meltdown-checker package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189477

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5753

http://www.nessus.org/u?9c88fcbd

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 152889

File Name: suse_SU-2021-2862-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/28/2021

Updated: 6/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6

Percentile: 96.69

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-5753

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 5.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:spectre-meltdown-checker

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/27/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/3/2018

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-5753

IAVA: 2017-A-0345-S, 2017-A-0347-S, 2018-A-0017-S, 2018-A-0020, 2018-A-0022-S, 2018-A-0123-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2021:2862-1