Red Hat Product Errata RHEA-2019:3854 - Product Enhancement Advisory
Issued:
2019-11-12
Updated:
2019-11-12

RHEA-2019:3854 - 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 6.5 Advanced Update Support.

Description

The microcode_ctl packages provide microcode updates for Intel x86 processors.

This update adds the following enhancement:

  • Update Intel microcode version to microcode-20191112. (BZ#1760913)

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

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

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

Note: a system reboot is necessary for this update to take effect.

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 6.5 x86_64

Fixes

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 6.5

SRPM
microcode_ctl-1.17-17.25.el6_5.src.rpm SHA-256: 5c0436c5952b76e6950387c021fed414056d6162aec81fe2f0b5ad1227c9133c
x86_64
microcode_ctl-1.17-17.25.el6_5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: b20579bd16572df36428de0852b33dace6e7cef659b67b1d7cba4d64c40b22ce
microcode_ctl-debuginfo-1.17-17.25.el6_5.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 8e05021644914964e44c87cbc5a5539d7b382a84df63367d7f68ebc379dcf860

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