Red Hat Product Errata RHEA-2018:1772 - Product Enhancement Advisory
Issued:
2018-05-30
Updated:
2018-05-30

RHEA-2018:1772 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Synopsis

linux-firmware enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory

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Topic

An update for linux-firmware is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Advanced Update Support.

Description

The linux-firmware packages contain all of the firmware files that are required by various devices to operate.

This update adds the following enhancement:

  • The AMD CPU microcode has been updated to the latest upstream version, which also provides new capabilities used by the Linux kernel to enhance mitigation of CVE-2017-5715, known as the Spectre variant 2 vulnerability. (BZ#1576318)

Users of linux-firmware are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.2 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1576318 - [RHEL-7] Include updated AMD firmware for Spectre mitigation [rhel-7.2.z]

CVEs

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.2

SRPM
linux-firmware-20150904-45.1.git6ebf5d5.el7_2.src.rpm SHA-256: 86ad304b9e4b7df38cd1e9b3f467f0175b96005745185de44e130768ef50aa7f
x86_64
iwl100-firmware-39.31.5.1-45.1.el7_2.noarch.rpm SHA-256: c661be6690692c68ba9a9b87d6557dffa96bdba8171e2303a66037549bb10227
iwl1000-firmware-39.31.5.1-45.1.el7_2.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 14b652fa9dad36b686e670346f95981fb8eb41f38fac68311e15d640844ba308
iwl105-firmware-18.168.6.1-45.1.el7_2.noarch.rpm SHA-256: ffd6589482622d5b8c8b04b05282915cce4e384305edddf08e05457263f125ef
iwl135-firmware-18.168.6.1-45.1.el7_2.noarch.rpm SHA-256: be56307e7c0037c100c962d94bd75d8073f7e99756c74022914c400ffca592cf
iwl2000-firmware-18.168.6.1-45.1.el7_2.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 55e90d0ba0eccb441254d29824cac6bd56c2710d094d85b21801872a8b9cc404
iwl2030-firmware-18.168.6.1-45.1.el7_2.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 04d11171ed21a3c021de06582404653ae247920783edd0ae3290d834875ccca9
iwl3160-firmware-22.0.7.0-45.1.el7_2.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 9d4ad2dcecb71103c09406c536a24b7022d2c9a32fcf5e70213711061e10f494
iwl3945-firmware-15.32.2.9-45.1.el7_2.noarch.rpm SHA-256: fedbb68384df240e914d6ec8e0d68c5355273399d1fbbd6ceeaff06f0d69e4ca
iwl4965-firmware-228.61.2.24-45.1.el7_2.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 47e5b065121f035a63462119e440ac9265d3d3194af80fd558f96b08f7db9305
iwl5000-firmware-8.83.5.1_1-45.1.el7_2.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 60c80bc16fd752f8214d465fe219b5ca125dbf4c47a271d5e9458d82b00d461d
iwl5150-firmware-8.24.2.2-45.1.el7_2.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 6b45a4757172ff735a6d814c60b41d1a8649689afee6c0dca53edb71f6a2f77d
iwl6000-firmware-9.221.4.1-45.1.el7_2.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 2d46f351addbc5c545050de9eae71f469665a807f4e77253d6a440913f5f4c55
iwl6000g2a-firmware-17.168.5.3-45.1.el7_2.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 6a5e626e656a56091361c16bc24dbc3788fbd5d44b2127b7d75b6c32730fa9af
iwl6000g2b-firmware-17.168.5.2-45.1.el7_2.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 5d268005734d81ad7a95d87a7b942e96a1e1ccea64da3b89b0185f59f0f384fa
iwl6050-firmware-41.28.5.1-45.1.el7_2.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 7158937eabbd7f7f35afcadcf2961ea994dae2f9536b90e8b230432dcfe090b0
iwl7260-firmware-22.0.7.0-45.1.el7_2.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 7d789a3c15a3bd1d91a18821c0e4776062c7e7d9b8d334db97319dddba6be333
iwl7265-firmware-22.0.7.0-45.1.el7_2.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 0553945202eaf178f9725124b4ddebcfcd7ed11e87dac16c4135724e7b8fd20d
linux-firmware-20150904-45.1.git6ebf5d5.el7_2.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 7d8d4041dbd2b9cb9bdce84fd62d84f81385868c2c8f0f1935ba7b2afd69b896

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