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Mageia 7 MGASA-2020-0298 Critical: Intel Microcode Information Disclosure

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Calendar Grey July 31, 2020
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Mageia's recent microcode patch targets security vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs, which could potentially expose sensitive data. Find comprehensive update insights below.
Incomplete cleanup from specific special register read operations in some Intel(R) Processors may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure via local...

Summary

Incomplete cleanup from specific special register read operations in some Intel(R) Processors may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access. (CVE-2020-0543)
Cleanup errors in some Intel(R) Processors may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access. (CVE-2020-0548)
Cleanup errors in some data cache evictions for some Intel(R) Processorsmay allow an authenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access. (CVE-2020-0549)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26783

- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2020/msg00105.html

- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2431

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4385-1

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4385-2

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/T5OUM24ZC43G4IDT3JUCIHJTSDXJSK6Y/

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-0543

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-0548

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-0549

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/nonfree/microcode-0.20200616-1.mga7.nonfree

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Publication date: 31 Jul 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0298.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-0543, CVE-2020-0548, CVE-2020-0549

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