SUSE SLES12 Security Update : ucode-intel (SUSE-SU-2018:1661-2)

high Nessus Plugin ID 118262

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update for ucode-intel fixes the following issues :

Update to version 20180425 (bsc#1091836)

Fix provided for :

GLK B0 6-7a-1/01 0000001e->00000022 Pentium Silver N/J5xxx, Celeron N/J4xxx

Name microcodes which are not allowed to load late with a *.early suffix

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-BCL-2018-1126=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1091836

http://www.nessus.org/u?37b1e8ba

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 118262

File Name: suse_SU-2018-1661-2.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/22/2018

Updated: 9/10/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ucode-intel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ucode-intel-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ucode-intel

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/18/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/18/2018