SUSE Security Update: Security update for ucode-intel ______________________________________________________________________________
Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:0006-1 Rating: important References: #1068032 Cross-References: CVE-2017-5715 Affected Products: SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2 ______________________________________________________________________________
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.
Description:
This update for ucode-intel fixes the following issues:
The CPU microcode for Haswell-X, Skylake-X and Broadwell-X chipsets was updated to report both branch prediction control via CPUID flag and ability to control branch prediction via an MSR register.
This update is part of a mitigation for a branch predictor based information disclosure attack, and needs additional code in the Linux Kernel to be active (bsc#1068032 CVE-2017-5715)
Patch Instructions:
To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6:
zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-6-2018-7=1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP1:
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP1-2018-7=1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3:
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2018-7=1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2:
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2018-7=1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS:
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2018-7=1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS:
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2018-7=1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3:
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2018-7=1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2:
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP2-2018-7=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".
Package List:
- SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6 (x86_64):
ucode-intel-20170707-13.8.1 ucode-intel-debuginfo-20170707-13.8.1 ucode-intel-debugsource-20170707-13.8.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP1 (x86_64):
ucode-intel-20170707-13.8.1 ucode-intel-debuginfo-20170707-13.8.1 ucode-intel-debugsource-20170707-13.8.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3 (x86_64):
ucode-intel-20170707-13.8.1 ucode-intel-debuginfo-20170707-13.8.1 ucode-intel-debugsource-20170707-13.8.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2 (x86_64):
ucode-intel-20170707-13.8.1 ucode-intel-debuginfo-20170707-13.8.1 ucode-intel-debugsource-20170707-13.8.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS (x86_64):
ucode-intel-20170707-13.8.1 ucode-intel-debuginfo-20170707-13.8.1 ucode-intel-debugsource-20170707-13.8.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS (x86_64):
ucode-intel-20170707-13.8.1 ucode-intel-debuginfo-20170707-13.8.1 ucode-intel-debugsource-20170707-13.8.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3 (x86_64):
ucode-intel-20170707-13.8.1 ucode-intel-debuginfo-20170707-13.8.1 ucode-intel-debugsource-20170707-13.8.1
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2 (x86_64):
ucode-intel-20170707-13.8.1 ucode-intel-debuginfo-20170707-13.8.1 ucode-intel-debugsource-20170707-13.8.1
References:
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5715.html https://bugzilla.suse.com/1068032