Advisories » 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

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22525
• https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-5/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5715

SRPMS

6/core

• gcc-5.5.0-1.mga6