Issued:

2019-11-12

Updated:

2019-11-12

RHEA-2019:3845 - microcode_ctl bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

microcode_ctl bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory None

Topic

An update for microcode_ctl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Description

The microcode_ctl packages provide microcode updates for Intel x86 processors.

With this update, the Intel microcode version has been updated to microcode-20191112.

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

Updated Packages

• microcode_ctl-20190618-1.20191112.1.el8_1.src.rpm
• microcode_ctl-20190618-1.20191112.1.el8_1.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1753062
• This content is not included.BZ - 1753064
• This content is not included.BZ - 1753065
• This content is not included.BZ - 1753066
• This content is not included.BZ - 1753068
• This content is not included.BZ - 1753113
• This content is not included.BZ - 1758414
• This content is not included.BZ - 1760200
• This content is not included.BZ - 1765481

CVEs

• CVE-2019-0117
• CVE-2019-11139

References

• https://access.redhat.com/solutions/2019-microcode-nov

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.