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SUSE: 2021:1932-1 Important: Local Escalation Issues in Ucode-Intel

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Calendar Grey June 10, 2021
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A patch has been released addressing four major vulnerabilities in ucode-intel for multiple SUSE versions. It is recommended to reboot your system following the installation.
An update that fixes four vulnerabilities is now available

Summary

This update for ucode-intel fixes the following issues: - Updated to Intel CPU Microcode 20210525 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:

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical privilege escalation SUSE local escalation ucode-intel transient execution

References

#1179833 #1179836 #1179837 #1179839

Cross- CVE-2020-24489 CVE-2020-24511 CVE-2020-24512

CVE-2020-24513

CVSS scores:

CVE-2020-24489 (SUSE): 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2020-24511 (SUSE): 5.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVE-2020-24512 (SUSE): 2.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

CVE-2020-24513 (SUSE): 5.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected Products:

SUSE Manager Server 4.0

SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.0

SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-SP1-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-SP1-BCL

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-SP1-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computin...

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2021:1932-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical privilege escalation SUSE local escalation ucode-intel transient execution

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