SUSE: 2018:2076-1 Important Microcode Fix For Spectre Risks
suse
July 26, 2018
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available
Summary
This update for microcode_ctl fixes the following issues: 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 details can be found 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
Topics Covered
References
#1087082 #1087083 #1100147
Cross- CVE-2018-3639 CVE-2018-3640
Affected Products:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3-LTSS
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3
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/1100147
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:2076-1
Rating: important
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