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openSUSE Security Update : ucode-intel (openSUSE-2018-266) (Spectre)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 108437

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for ucode-intel fixes the following issues :

The Intel CPU microcode version was updated to version 20180312.

This update enables the IBPB+IBRS based mitigations of the Spectre v2 flaws (boo#1085207 CVE-2017-5715)

 - New Platforms

 - BDX-DE EGW A0 6-56-5:10 e000009

 - SKX B1 6-55-3:97 1000140

 - Updates

 - SNB D2 6-2a-7:12 29->2d

 - JKT C1 6-2d-6:6d 619->61c

 - JKT C2 6-2d-7:6d 710->713

 - IVB E2 6-3a-9:12 1c->1f

 - IVT C0 6-3e-4:ed 428->42c

 - IVT D1 6-3e-7:ed 70d->713

 - HSW Cx/Dx 6-3c-3:32 22->24

 - HSW-ULT Cx/Dx 6-45-1:72 20->23

 - CRW Cx 6-46-1:32 17->19

 - HSX C0 6-3f-2:6f 3a->3c

 - HSX-EX E0 6-3f-4:80 0f->11

 - BDW-U/Y E/F 6-3d-4:c0 25->2a

 - BDW-H E/G 6-47-1:22 17->1d

 - BDX-DE V0/V1 6-56-2:10 0f->15

 - BDW-DE V2 6-56-3:10 700000d->7000012

 - BDW-DE Y0 6-56-4:10 f00000a->f000011

 - SKL-U/Y D0 6-4e-3:c0 ba->c2

 - SKL R0 6-5e-3:36 ba->c2

 - KBL-U/Y H0 6-8e-9:c0 62->84

 - KBL B0 6-9e-9:2a 5e->84

 - CFL D0 6-8e-a:c0 70->84

 - CFL U0 6-9e-a:22 70->84

 - CFL B0 6-9e-b:02 72->84

 - SKX H0 6-55-4:b7 2000035->2000043

Solution

Update the affected ucode-intel packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1085207

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 108437

File Name: openSUSE-2018-266.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/19/2018

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 5.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ucode-intel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ucode-intel-blob, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ucode-intel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ucode-intel-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.3

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/16/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/4/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-5715

IAVA: 2018-A-0020