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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : ucode-intel (SUSE-SU-2019:2959-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 130957

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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 :

Updated to 20191112 security release (bsc#1155988)

 - Processor Identifier Version Products

 - Model Stepping F-MO-S/PI Old->New

 - ---- new platforms
 ----------------------------------------

 - CML-U62 A0 6-a6-0/80 000000c6 Core Gen10 Mobile

 - CNL-U D0 6-66-3/80 0000002a Core Gen8 Mobile

 - SKX-SP B1 6-55-3/97 01000150 Xeon Scalable

 - ICL U/Y D1 6-7e-5/80 00000046 Core Gen10 Mobile

 - ---- updated platforms
 ------------------------------------

 - SKL U/Y D0 6-4e-3/c0 000000cc->000000d4 Core Gen6 Mobile

 - SKL H/S/E3 R0/N0 6-5e-3/36 000000cc->000000d4 Core Gen6

 - AML-Y22 H0 6-8e-9/10 000000b4->000000c6 Core Gen8 Mobile

 - KBL-U/Y H0 6-8e-9/c0 000000b4->000000c6 Core Gen7 Mobile

 - CFL-U43e D0 6-8e-a/c0 000000b4->000000c6 Core Gen8 Mobile

 - WHL-U W0 6-8e-b/d0 000000b8->000000c6 Core Gen8 Mobile

 - AML-Y V0 6-8e-c/94 000000b8->000000c6 Core Gen10 Mobile

 - CML-U42 V0 6-8e-c/94 000000b8->000000c6 Core Gen10 Mobile

 - WHL-U V0 6-8e-c/94 000000b8->000000c6 Core Gen8 Mobile

 - KBL-G/X H0 6-9e-9/2a 000000b4->000000c6 Core Gen7/Gen8

 - KBL-H/S/E3 B0 6-9e-9/2a 000000b4->000000c6 Core Gen7;
 Xeon E3 v6

 - CFL-H/S/E3 U0 6-9e-a/22 000000b4->000000c6 Core Gen8 Desktop, Mobile, Xeon E

 - CFL-S B0 6-9e-b/02 000000b4->000000c6 Core Gen8

 - CFL-H R0 6-9e-d/22 000000b8->000000c6 Core Gen9 Mobile

Includes security fixes for :

 - CVE-2019-11135: Added feature allowing to disable TSX RTM (bsc#1139073)

 - CVE-2019-11139: A CPU microcode only fix for Voltage modulation issues (bsc#1141035)

requires coreutils for the %post script (bsc#1154043)

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 OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8:zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-Crowbar-8-2019-2959=1

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8:zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-8-2019-2959=1

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7:zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-7-2019-2959=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP3-2019-2959=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP2-2019-2959=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP1-2019-2959=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2019-2959=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP4-2019-2959=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2019-2959=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3-BCL:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-BCL-2019-2959=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2019-2959=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-BCL-2019-2959=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2019-2959=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP4:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP4-2019-2959=1

SUSE Enterprise Storage 5:zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-5-2019-2959=1

SUSE CaaS Platform 3.0 :

To install this update, use the SUSE CaaS Platform Velum dashboard. It will inform you if it detects new updates and let you then trigger updating of the complete cluster in a controlled way.

HPE Helion Openstack 8:zypper in -t patch HPE-Helion-OpenStack-8-2019-2959=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139073

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1141035

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1154043

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1155988

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11135/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11139/

http://www.nessus.org/u?c6564069

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 130957

File Name: suse_SU-2019-2959-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/13/2019

Updated: 1/13/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-11135

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/12/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/14/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-11135, CVE-2019-11139