diff --git a/spectre-meltdown-checker.sh b/spectre-meltdown-checker.sh
index 14bbdf3..5986bae 100755
--- a/spectre-meltdown-checker.sh
+++ b/spectre-meltdown-checker.sh
@@ -1376,6 +1376,7 @@ extract_kernel()
 			try_decompress '\135\0\0\0'       xxx   unlzma  ''      xz-utils    "$1" "$mode" "$pass" && return 0
 			try_decompress '\211\114\132'     xy    'lzop'  '-d'    lzop        "$1" "$mode" "$pass" && return 0
 			try_decompress '\177ELF'          xxy   'cat'   ''      cat         "$1" "$mode" "$pass" && return 0
+			try_decompress '(\265/\375'       xxy   unzstd  ''      zstd        "$1" "$mode" "$pass" && return 0
 		done
 	done
 	kernel_err="kernel compression format is unknown or image is invalid"