Red Hat Product Errata RHEA-2025:2424 - Product Enhancement Advisory
Issued:
2025-03-06
Updated:
2025-03-06

RHEA-2025:2424 - 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 8.2 Advanced Update Support.

Description

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

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

  • microcode_ctl: Improper input validation in UEFI firmware (JIRA:RHEL-79218)
  • microcode_ctl: Improper input validation in UEFI firmware (JIRA:RHEL-79220)
  • microcode_ctl: Improper input validation in UEFI firmware CseVariableStorageSmm (JIRA:RHEL-79222)
  • microcode_ctl: Improper input validation in XmlCli feature for UEFI firmware (JIRA:RHEL-79232)
  • microcode_ctl: Improper input validation in UEFI firmware (JIRA:RHEL-79238)

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

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.2 x86_64

Fixes

(none)

References

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.2

SRPM
microcode_ctl-20191115-4.20250211.1.el8_2.src.rpm SHA-256: 5c194d42752ae986effecb3a471b74633cf360d375da4f833976cb89ee4f45ca
x86_64
microcode_ctl-20191115-4.20250211.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: a30f40a64a5418abc312e834603fb8db49b58daacd41c5f56a8000b91851c968

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