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SUSE: 2018:1935-1 Important: Intel Microcode Update Mitigating Spectre

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Calendar Grey July 12, 2018
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The latest Ubuntu patch tackles multiple crucial AMD vulnerabilities, enhancing protection and performance across various devices.
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has two fixes is now available

Summary

The Intel CPU microcode bundle 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

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Topics Covered

security advisory important suse linux enterprise intel microcode spectre

References

#1087082 #1087083 #1096141 #1100147

Cross- CVE-2018-3639 CVE-2018-3640

Affected Products:

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3

SUSE Enterprise Storage 4

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/1096141

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1100147

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:1935-1
Rating: important

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security advisory important suse linux enterprise intel microcode spectre

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