Issued:

2018-01-16

Updated:

2018-01-16

RHSA-2018:0093 - Important: microcode_ctl security update

Synopsis

Important: microcode_ctl security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for microcode_ctl is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Telco Extended Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 Extended Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Telco Extended Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

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

This update supersedes microcode provided by Red Hat with the CVE-2017-5715 (“Spectre”) CPU branch injection vulnerability mitigation. (Historically, Red Hat has provided updated microcode, developed by our microprocessor partners, as a customer convenience.) Further testing has uncovered problems with the microcode provided along with the “Spectre” mitigation that could lead to system instabilities. As a result, Red Hat is providing an microcode update that reverts to the last known good microcode version dated before 03 January 2018. Red Hat strongly recommends that customers contact their hardware provider for the latest microcode updates.

IMPORTANT: Customers using Intel Skylake-, Broadwell-, and Haswell-based platforms must obtain and install updated microcode from their hardware vendor immediately. The "Spectre" mitigation requires both an updated kernel from Red Hat and updated microcode from your hardware vendor.

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

Updated Packages

• microcode_ctl-debuginfo-1.17-9.2.el6_2.x86_64.rpm
• microcode_ctl-1.17-16.2.el6_4.src.rpm
• microcode_ctl-1.17-20.2.el6_7.src.rpm
• microcode_ctl-2.1-16.5.el7_3.src.rpm
• microcode_ctl-2.1-16.5.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
• microcode_ctl-1.17-9.2.el6_2.src.rpm
• microcode_ctl-debuginfo-1.17-19.2.el6_6.x86_64.rpm
• microcode_ctl-1.17-19.2.el6_6.x86_64.rpm
• microcode_ctl-2.1-22.5.el7_4.src.rpm
• microcode_ctl-1.17-17.el6_5.3.src.rpm
• microcode_ctl-1.17-17.el6_5.3.x86_64.rpm
• microcode_ctl-2.1-22.5.el7_4.x86_64.rpm
• microcode_ctl-debuginfo-1.17-25.4.el6_9.x86_64.rpm
• microcode_ctl-1.17-20.2.el6_7.x86_64.rpm
• microcode_ctl-2.1-12.el7_2.3.x86_64.rpm
• microcode_ctl-1.17-16.2.el6_4.x86_64.rpm
• microcode_ctl-debuginfo-1.17-20.2.el6_7.x86_64.rpm
• microcode_ctl-1.17-9.2.el6_2.x86_64.rpm
• microcode_ctl-1.17-20.2.el6_7.i686.rpm
• microcode_ctl-debuginfo-1.17-25.4.el6_9.i686.rpm
• microcode_ctl-debuginfo-1.17-17.el6_5.3.x86_64.rpm
• microcode_ctl-debuginfo-1.17-16.2.el6_4.x86_64.rpm
• microcode_ctl-1.17-19.2.el6_6.src.rpm
• microcode_ctl-1.17-25.4.el6_9.src.rpm
• microcode_ctl-1.17-25.4.el6_9.i686.rpm
• microcode_ctl-debuginfo-1.17-20.2.el6_7.i686.rpm
• microcode_ctl-2.1-12.el7_2.3.src.rpm
• microcode_ctl-debuginfo-2.1-16.5.el7_3.x86_64.rpm
• microcode_ctl-debuginfo-2.1-12.el7_2.3.x86_64.rpm
• microcode_ctl-debuginfo-2.1-22.5.el7_4.x86_64.rpm
• microcode_ctl-1.17-25.4.el6_9.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

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CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• This content is not included.This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/speculativeexecution
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5715

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.