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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2018-013bff77bf
2018-04-21 02:56:30.270678
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Name : spectre-meltdown-checker
Product : Fedora EPEL 7
Version : 0.36
Release : 1.el7
URL :
https://github.com/speed47/spectre-meltdown-checker
Summary : Spectre & Meltdown vulnerability/mitigation checker for Linux
Description :
Spectre & Meltdown vulnerability/mitigation checker for Linux.
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Update Information:
Update to release 0.36: * Feature: Add support to detect RHEL 5 kernels
backported mitigations * Feature: Add `--prefix-arch` option for cross-
architecture kernel inspection * Feature: Add `--hw-only` option to only show
CPU microcode features supported for mitigation * Feature: Add support to
properly extract some previously unsupported ARM kernels * Feature: Check for
MSR/CPUID of each CPU core, not just the first one * Feature: Add `--batch
prometheus` option to produce output for consumption by prometheus-node-exporter
* Fix: Corrected a corner case of blacklist detection for some microcode
versions * Fix: Properly detect Xen PVHVM mode * Fix: No longer check MSR/CPUID
for non-x86 CPUs * Misc: Other tiny enhancements and fixes
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update spectre-meltdown-checker' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "YUM", available at
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/...
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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