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openSUSE Leap 42.3 Security Advisory: CPU Spectre Fix 2018:2399-1 Important

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Calendar Grey August 17, 2018
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Critical announcement for Arch Linux addressing various processor concerns associated with Meltdown threats and maintaining overall system integrity.
An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

Description

ucode-intel was updated to the 20180807 release.

For the listed CPU chipsets this fixes CVE-2018-3640 (Spectre v3a) and is

part of the mitigations for CVE-2018-3639 (Spectre v4) and CVE-2018-3646

(L1 Terminal fault). (bsc#1104134 bsc#1087082 bsc#1087083 bsc#1089343)

Processor Identifier Version Products

Model Stepping F-MO-S/PI Old->New

---- new platforms ---------------------------------------- WSM-EP/WS

U1 6-2c-2/03 0000001f Xeon E/L/X56xx, W36xx NHM-EX

D0 6-2e-6/04 0000000d Xeon E/L/X65xx/75xx BXT

C0 6-5c-2/01 00000014 Atom T5500/5700 APL

E0 6-5c-a/03 0000000c Atom x5-E39xx DVN

B0 6-5f-1/01 00000024 Atom C3xxx

---- updated platforms ------------------------------------ NHM-EP/WS

D0 6-1a-5/03 00000019->0000001d Xeon E/L/X/W55xx NHM

B1 6-1e-5/13 00000007->0000000a Core i7-8xx, i5-7xx; Xeon...

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Topics Covered

security advisory software patch important openSUSE Leap Spectre mitigation processor issue ucode update

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-2018-887=1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-887=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

ucode-intel-20180807-28.1

ucode-intel-blob-20180807-28.1

ucode-intel-debuginfo-20180807-28.1

ucode-intel-debugsource-20180807-28.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (x86_64):

ucode-intel-20180807-lp150.2.7.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3639.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3640.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3646.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1087082

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1087083

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1089343

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1104134

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:2399-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 openSUSE Leap 15.0 le.

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Topics Covered

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