Red Hat Product Errata RHEA-2018:3097 - Product Enhancement Advisory
Issued:
2018-10-30
Updated:
2018-10-30

RHEA-2018:3097 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Synopsis

microcode_ctl bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory

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Topic

An update for microcode_ctl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The microcode_ctl packages provide microcode updates for Intel and AMD processors.

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Users of microcode_ctl 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 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1574574 - [RHEL-7] Include updated microcode_ctl for Intel 20180425
  • BZ - 1574582 - [RHEL-7] Include updated ucode for Broadwell EP/EX
  • BZ - 1589987 - microcode_ctl "list" text file + dracut with hostonly disabled breaks early microcode loading
  • BZ - 1591664 - The posttrans step of the RPM microcode_ctl executes dracut -f which generate broken initramfs
  • BZ - 1614422 - [RHEL-7] Update microcode to 20180807
  • BZ - 1626245 - dracut-033-553 performs recursive find of /home, causing huge performance lag for patch

CVEs

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7

SRPM
microcode_ctl-2.1-47.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: a6b5202f2e23306ee6a57b69b790487dd4b8a8c6b5a8501c496a71771561d759
x86_64
microcode_ctl-2.1-47.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ca65f9bb921e1592b81a3cf0ab41749c96723b2c3b5422bf4e658b3a69c60e70
microcode_ctl-debuginfo-2.1-47.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: daec41e7ef0e4c99f9dd5d301a6ba6384f8d7e9f7e5f9388a0fcd8ba677e9132

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7

SRPM
microcode_ctl-2.1-47.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: a6b5202f2e23306ee6a57b69b790487dd4b8a8c6b5a8501c496a71771561d759
x86_64
microcode_ctl-2.1-47.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ca65f9bb921e1592b81a3cf0ab41749c96723b2c3b5422bf4e658b3a69c60e70
microcode_ctl-debuginfo-2.1-47.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: daec41e7ef0e4c99f9dd5d301a6ba6384f8d7e9f7e5f9388a0fcd8ba677e9132

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7

SRPM
microcode_ctl-2.1-47.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: a6b5202f2e23306ee6a57b69b790487dd4b8a8c6b5a8501c496a71771561d759
x86_64
microcode_ctl-2.1-47.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ca65f9bb921e1592b81a3cf0ab41749c96723b2c3b5422bf4e658b3a69c60e70
microcode_ctl-debuginfo-2.1-47.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: daec41e7ef0e4c99f9dd5d301a6ba6384f8d7e9f7e5f9388a0fcd8ba677e9132

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7

SRPM
microcode_ctl-2.1-47.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: a6b5202f2e23306ee6a57b69b790487dd4b8a8c6b5a8501c496a71771561d759
x86_64
microcode_ctl-2.1-47.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ca65f9bb921e1592b81a3cf0ab41749c96723b2c3b5422bf4e658b3a69c60e70
microcode_ctl-debuginfo-2.1-47.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: daec41e7ef0e4c99f9dd5d301a6ba6384f8d7e9f7e5f9388a0fcd8ba677e9132

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7

SRPM
microcode_ctl-2.1-47.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: a6b5202f2e23306ee6a57b69b790487dd4b8a8c6b5a8501c496a71771561d759
x86_64
microcode_ctl-2.1-47.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ca65f9bb921e1592b81a3cf0ab41749c96723b2c3b5422bf4e658b3a69c60e70
microcode_ctl-debuginfo-2.1-47.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: daec41e7ef0e4c99f9dd5d301a6ba6384f8d7e9f7e5f9388a0fcd8ba677e9132

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