Red Hat Product Errata RHEA-2019:1213 - Product Enhancement Advisory
Issued:
2019-05-14
Updated:
2019-05-14

RHEA-2019:1213 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Synopsis

microcode_ctl enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory

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Topic

Updated microcode_ctl packages that add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Extended Update Support.

Description

The microcode_ctl packages provide microcode updates for Intel processors.

This update adds the following enhancement:

  • The Intel CPU microcode has been updated to the latest upstream version to mitigate CVE-2018-12130, CVE-2018-12126, CVE-2018-12127, and CVE-2019-11091. (BZ#1704373)

Users of microcode_ctl are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which add this enhancement.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

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

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

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.5 x86_64

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.5

SRPM
microcode_ctl-2.1-29.18.el7_5.src.rpm SHA-256: 744d36bda98b45ec112858d0e68b720d16c426b3c22070465f1eda4475214bd8
x86_64
microcode_ctl-2.1-29.18.el7_5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 96ac3589832a8b5aff8f6ad0fb32776bb109b2438adb42542d898874cedfc184
microcode_ctl-debuginfo-2.1-29.18.el7_5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 7f2db7eaa1f1cf95f5239efd645c1c873d8edef5458c1e2bf7720cebd45638bd

Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.5

SRPM
microcode_ctl-2.1-29.18.el7_5.src.rpm SHA-256: 744d36bda98b45ec112858d0e68b720d16c426b3c22070465f1eda4475214bd8
x86_64
microcode_ctl-2.1-29.18.el7_5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 96ac3589832a8b5aff8f6ad0fb32776bb109b2438adb42542d898874cedfc184
microcode_ctl-debuginfo-2.1-29.18.el7_5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 7f2db7eaa1f1cf95f5239efd645c1c873d8edef5458c1e2bf7720cebd45638bd

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