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SUSE: 2018:2338-1 Important: ucode-intel CPU Mitigation Update

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Calendar Grey August 16, 2018
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SUSE has issued a security patch for ucode-intel addressing multiple vulnerabilities while implementing essential CPU safeguards, notably against Spectre.
An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available

Summary

ucode-intel was updated to the 20180807 release. For the listed CPU chipsets this fixes CVE-2018-3640 (Spectre v3a) and is part of the mitigations for CVE-2018-3639 (Spectre v4) and CVE-2018-3646 (L1 Terminal fault). (bsc#1104134 bsc#1087082 bsc#1087083 bsc#1089343) Processor Identifier Version Products Model Stepping F-MO-S/PI Old->New

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Topics Covered

security advisory patch important SUSE ucode-intel spectre CPU mitigations

References

#1087082 #1087083 #1089343 #1104134

Cross- CVE-2018-3639 CVE-2018-3640 CVE-2018-3646

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3639.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3640.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3646.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1087082

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1087083

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1089343

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1104134

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:2338-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory patch important SUSE ucode-intel spectre CPU mitigations

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