Issued:
2020-06-09
Updated:
2020-06-09

RHSA-2020:2432 - Moderate: microcode_ctl security, bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

Moderate: microcode_ctl security, bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

Updated microcode_ctl packages that fix several security bugs and add various enhancements are now available.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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

Security Fix(es):

  • hw: Special Register Buffer Data Sampling (SRBDS) (CVE-2020-0543)

  • hw: L1D Cache Eviction Sampling (CVE-2020-0549)

  • hw: Vector Register Data Sampling (CVE-2020-0548)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Bug Fix(es):

  • Update Intel CPU microcode to microcode-20200602 release, addresses:
    • Update of 06-2d-06/0x6d (SNB-E/EN/EP C1/M0) microcode from revision 0x61f up to 0x621;
    • Update of 06-2d-07/0x6d (SNB-E/EN/EP C2/M1) microcode from revision 0x718 up to 0x71a;
    • Update of 06-3c-03/0x32 (HSW C0) microcode from revision 0x27 up to 0x28;
    • Update of 06-3d-04/0xc0 (BDW-U/Y E0/F0) microcode from revision 0x2e up to 0x2f;
    • Update of 06-45-01/0x72 (HSW-U C0/D0) microcode from revision 0x25 up to 0x26;
    • Update of 06-46-01/0x32 (HSW-H C0) microcode from revision 0x1b up to 0x1c;
    • Update of 06-47-01/0x22 (BDW-H/Xeon E3 E0/G0) microcode from revision 0x21 up to 0x22;
    • Update of 06-4e-03/0xc0 (SKL-U/Y D0) microcode from revision 0xd6 up to 0xdc;
    • Update of 06-55-03/0x97 (SKX-SP B1) microcode from revision 0x1000151 up to 0x1000157;
    • Update of 06-55-04/0xb7 (SKX-SP H0/M0/U0, SKX-D M1) microcode (in intel-06-55-04/intel-ucode/06-55-04) from revision 0x2000065 up to 0x2006906;
    • Update of 06-55-06/0xbf (CLX-SP B0) microcode from revision 0x400002c up to 0x4002f01;
    • Update of 06-55-07/0xbf (CLX-SP B1) microcode from revision 0x500002c up to 0x5002f01;
    • Update of 06-5e-03/0x36 (SKL-H/S R0/N0) microcode from revision 0xd6 up to 0xdc;
    • Update of 06-7e-05/0x80 (ICL-U/Y D1) microcode from revision 0x46 up to 0x78;
    • Update of 06-8e-09/0x10 (AML-Y22 H0) microcode from revision 0xca up to 0xd6;
    • Update of 06-8e-09/0xc0 (KBL-U/Y H0) microcode from revision 0xca up to 0xd6;
    • Update of 06-8e-0a/0xc0 (CFL-U43e D0) microcode from revision 0xca up to 0xd6;
    • Update of 06-8e-0b/0xd0 (WHL-U W0) microcode from revision 0xca up to 0xd6;
    • Update of 06-8e-0c/0x94 (AML-Y42 V0, CML-Y42 V0, WHL-U V0) microcode from revision 0xca up to 0xd6;
    • Update of 06-9e-09/0x2a (KBL-G/H/S/X/Xeon E3 B0) microcode from revision 0xca up to 0xd6;
    • Update of 06-9e-0a/0x22 (CFL-H/S/Xeon E3 U0) microcode from revision 0xca up to 0xd6;
    • Update of 06-9e-0b/0x02 (CFL-S B0) microcode from revision 0xca up to 0xd6;
    • Update of 06-9e-0c/0x22 (CFL-H/S P0) microcode from revision 0xca up to 0xd6;
    • Update of 06-9e-0d/0x22 (CFL-H R0) microcode from revision 0xca up to 0xd6.
  • Change the URL in the intel-microcode2ucode.8 to point to the GitHub repository since the microcode download section at Intel Download Center does not exist anymore.

  • Narrow down SKL-SP/W/X blacklist to exclude Server/FPGA/Fabric segment models.

  • Re-generate initramfs not only for the currently running kernel, but for several recently installed kernels as well.

  • Avoid find being SIGPIPE'd on early "grep -q" exit in the dracut script.

  • Update stale posttrans dependency, add triggers for proper handling of the debug kernel flavour along with kernel-rt.

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

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop7x86_64

Updated Packages

  • microcode_ctl-2.1-61.6.el7_8.x86_64.rpm
  • microcode_ctl-2.1-61.6.el7_8.src.rpm
  • microcode_ctl-debuginfo-2.1-61.6.el7_8.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information