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Debian: Security Advisory for intel-microcode (DSA-4701-1)

Information

Severity

Severity

Low

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

2.1

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

3 years ago

Modified

Modified

3 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update for the 'intel-microcode' package(s) announced via the DSA-4701-1 advisory.

Insight

Insight

This update ships updated CPU microcode for some types of Intel CPUs and provides mitigations for the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling (CVE-2020-0543), Vector Register Sampling (CVE-2020-0548) and L1D Eviction Sampling (CVE-2020-0549 ) hardware vulnerabilities. The microcode update for HEDT and Xeon CPUs with signature 0x50654 which was reverted in DSA 4565-2 is now included again with a fixed release. The upstream update for Skylake-U/Y (signature 0x406e3) had to be excluded from this update due to reported hangs on boot.

Affected Software

Affected Software

'intel-microcode' package(s) on Debian Linux.

Detection Method

Detection Method

Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.

Solution

Solution

For the oldstable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 3.20200609.2~deb9u1. For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version 3.20200609.2~deb10u1. We recommend that you upgrade your intel-microcode packages.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)