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VPR Score: 6.1
Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
Description
- Update to upstream 2.1-31. 20201118
- Removal of 06-8c-01/0x80 (TGL-UP3/UP4 B1) microcode at revision 0x68[1];
- Update of 06-7a-01/0x01 (GLK B0) microcode from revision 0x32 up to 0x34[2].
[1] The microcode has been removed after reports of system hangs:
https://github.com/intel/Intel-Linux-Processor-Microcode-Data-Files/is sues/44
[2] Addresses CVE-2020-8695 for this platform.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected 2:microcode_ctl package.