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openSUSE Leap 15.2: 2021:0876-1 Important Ucode-Intel Microcode Fix

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Calendar Grey June 16, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A significant openSUSE patch for ucode-intel resolves major transient execution vulnerabilities. Apply the update immediately.
An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update for ucode-intel fixes the following issues:

Updated to Intel CPU Microcode 20210608 release.

- CVE-2020-24513: A domain bypass transient execution vulnerability was

discovered on some Intel Atom processors that use a

micro-architectural incident channel. (INTEL-SA-00465 bsc#1179833)

See also:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/404.html?ref=https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/404.html?ref=https://https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/404.html?ref=https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/404.html?ref=https://https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/404.html?ref=https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/404.html?ref=https://https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/404.html?ref=https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/404.html?ref=https://https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/404.html?ref=

0465.html

- CVE-2020-24511: The IBRS feature to mitigate Spectre variant 2

transient execution side channel vulnerabilities may...

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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 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-876=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

ucode-intel-20210525-lp152.2.17.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-24489.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-24511.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-24512.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-24513.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1179833

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1179836

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1179837

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1179839

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0876-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 .

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