SUSE: 2018:1935-2 Important: Spectre CPU Microcode Mitigation
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October 18, 2018
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
Topics Covered
References
#1087082 #1087083 #1096141 #1100147
Cross- CVE-2018-3639 CVE-2018-3640
Affected Products:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL
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-2018:1935-2
Rating: important
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