CPU "model 45" systems hangs/panics during boot following an update to the microcode_ctl package

Solution Verified - Updated 2019-11-18T20:11:17+00:00 -

Issue

After upgrade to microcode_ctl-1.17-33.14.el6_10.x86_64, the system is powered off during boot.

After update, the system hangs during boot with the following messages on the console:

microcode: CPU0 sig=0x206d7, pf=0x40, revision=0x714
platform microcode: firmware: requesting intel-ucode/06-2d-07

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
microcode_ctl
Intel model 45 CPUs. The following models have been reported to experience the issue (not inclusive list)
```
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-4640 0 @ 2.40GHz
```

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