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Fedora: FEDORA-2020-e8835a5f8e Critical: Microcode Patch for CPU Security

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Calendar Grey June 18, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Debian releases a patch for openssh updating several vulnerabilities to improve server protection.
Security fix for CVE-2020-0548, CVE-2020-0549, CVE-2020-0543 ---- Update to upstream 2.1-28

Summary

The microcode_ctl utility is a companion to the microcode driver written

by Tigran Aivazian .

The microcode update is volatile and needs to be uploaded on each system

boot i.e. it doesn't reflash your cpu permanently, reboot and it reverts

back to the old microcode.

Security fix for CVE-2020-0548, CVE-2020-0549, CVE-2020-0543 ---- Update to

upstream 2.1-28. 20200609

* Tue Jun 16 2020 Anton Arapov 2:2.1-39

- Update to upstream 2.1-29. 20200616

* Wed Jun 10 2020 Anton Arapov 2:2.1-38

- Update to upstream 2.1-28. 20200609

[ 1 ] Bug #1788786 - CVE-2020-0548 hw: Vector Register Data Sampling

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1788786

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-e8835a5f8e' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 32
Version: 2.1
Release: 39.fc32
Summary: Tool to transform and deploy CPU microcode update for x86

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