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openSUSE Leap 15.1: 2020:2098-1 Important Intel Microcode Updates

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Calendar Grey November 28, 2020
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
New patch addresses vulnerabilities in openSUSE, enhancing Intel ucode with better microcode operations and additional corrections.
An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available.

Description

This update for ucode-intel fixes the following issues:

- Updated Intel CPU Microcode to 20201118 official release. (bsc#1178971)

- Removed TGL/06-8c-01/80 due to functional issues with some OEM

platforms.

- Updated Intel CPU Microcode to 20201110 official release.

- CVE-2020-8695: Fixed Intel RAPL sidechannel attack (SGX) (bsc#1170446)

- CVE-2020-8698: Fixed Fast Store Forward Predictor INTEL-SA-00381

(bsc#1173594)

- CVE-2020-8696: Vector Register Sampling Active INTEL-SA-00381

(bsc#1173592)

- Release notes:

- Security updates for

[INTEL-SA-00381](https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00381.html).

- Security updates for

[INTEL-SA-00389](https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00389.html).

- Update for functional issues. Refer to [Second Generation Intel??

Xeon?? Processor Scalable Family Specification

...

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Topics Covered

security advisory important software fix openSUSE microcode update ucode-intel Intel issues

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 15.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2020-2098=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.1 (x86_64):

ucode-intel-20201118-lp151.2.33.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8695.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8696.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8698.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1170446

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1173592

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1173594

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1178971

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:2098-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1 ble.

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Topics Covered

security advisory important software fix openSUSE microcode update ucode-intel Intel issues

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