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Debian: DSA-5924-1 critical: Intel microcode mitigates ITS and injection

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Calendar Grey May 23, 2025
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Debian rolls out CPU microcode enhancements to mitigate Indirect Branch Prediction and Side-Channel Attack risks. System upgrade advised.
This update ships updated CPU microcode for some types of Intel CPUs

Summary

For CPUs affected to ITS (Indirect Target Selection), to fully mitigate
the vulnerability it is also necessary to update the Linux kernel
packages released in a separate, forthcoming DSA.

For details on the Indirect Target Selection (ITS) vulnerability please
refer to https://www.vusec.net/projects/training-solo/ and
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/software-security-guidance/advisory-guidance/indirect-target-selection.html .

For details on the Branch Privilege Injection vulnerability please refer
to https://comsec.ethz.ch/research/microarch/branch-privilege-injection/

For the stable distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed in
version 3.20250512.1~deb12u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your intel-microcode packages.

For the detailed security status of intel-microcode please refer to its
security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/intel-microcode

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Package: intel-microcode
CVE ID: CVE-2024-28956 CVE-2024-43420 CVE-2024-45332 CVE-2025-20012

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