openSUSE: 2018:1904-1 Important: ucode-intel Spectre Mitigation
opensuse
July 6, 2018
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.
Description
This update for ucode-intel fixes the following issues:
The microcode bundles was updated to the 20180703 release
For the listed CPU chipsets this fixes CVE-2018-3640 (Spectre v3a) and
helps mitigating CVE-2018-3639 (Spectre v4) (bsc#1100147 bsc#1087082
bsc#1087083).
More information on:
ata-File
Following chipsets are fixed in this round:
Model Stepping F-MO-S/PI Old->New
---- updated platforms ------------------------------------
SNB-EP C1 6-2d-6/6d 0000061c->0000061d Xeon E5 SNB-EP
C2 6-2d-7/6d 00000713->00000714 Xeon E5 IVT C0
6-3e-4/ed 0000042c->0000042d Xeon E5 v2; Core i7-4960X/4930K/4820K
IVT D1 6-3e-7/ed 00000713->00000714 Xeon E5 v2 HSX-E/EP/4S
C0 6-3f-2/6f 0000003c->0000003d Xeon E5 v3 HSX-EX E0
6-3f-4/80 00000011->00000012 Xeon E7 v3 SKX-SP/D/W/X H0 6-55-4/b7
02000043->0200004d Xeon Bronze 31xx, Silver 41xx, Gold...
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Topics Covered
Patch
Patch Instructions:
To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods
like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- openSUSE Leap 42.3:
zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-700=1
- openSUSE Leap 15.0:
zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-700=1
Package List
- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):
ucode-intel-20180703-25.1
ucode-intel-blob-20180703-25.1
ucode-intel-debuginfo-20180703-25.1
ucode-intel-debugsource-20180703-25.1
- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (x86_64):
ucode-intel-20180703-lp150.2.4.1
References
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3639.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3640.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1087082
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1087083
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1100147
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:1904-1
Rating: important
Affected Products:
openSUSE Leap 42.3
openSUSE Leap 15.0
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