Advisories ยป MGASA-2018-0124

Updated gcc packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 08 Feb 2018
Modification date: 08 Feb 2018
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 6
CVE: CVE-2017-5715

Description

This update provides and update to 5.5.0 maintenance release and adds
support for retpoline, a mitigation technique for CVE-2017-5715 [branch
target injection] aka 'Spectre Variant 2' that is needed at least for the
kernels.
                

References

SRPMS

6/core