Fedora 30: microcode_ctl FEDORA-2019-1689d3fe07
Summary
The microcode_ctl utility is a companion to the microcode driver written
by Tigran Aivazian
The microcode update is volatile and needs to be uploaded on each system
boot i.e. it doesn't reflash your cpu permanently, reboot and it reverts
back to the old microcode.
The 5.3.11 stable kernel update contains a number of important security updates
across the tree, including mitigations for the most recent hardware issues
disclosed on Nov 12.
* Tue Nov 12 2019 Justin Forbes
- Update to microcode-20191112 for CVE fixes
* Wed Oct 2 2019 Anton Arapov
- Update to upstream 2.1-23. 20190918
* Thu Jul 25 2019 Fedora Release Engineering
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_31_Mass_Rebuild
* Thu Jun 20 2019 Anton Arapov
- Update to upstream 2.1-22. 20190618
* Wed May 15 2019 Anton Arapov
- Update to upstream 2.1-21. 20190514
* Thu May 9 2019 Anton Arapov
- Update to upstream 2.1-20. 20190312
[ 1 ] Bug #1753062 - CVE-2019-11135 hw: TSX Transaction Asynchronous Abort (TAA)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1753062
[ 2 ] Bug #1646768 - CVE-2018-12207 hw: Machine Check Error on Page Size Change (IPU)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1646768
[ 3 ] Bug #1724393 - CVE-2019-0154 hw: Intel GPU Denial Of Service while accessing MMIO in lower power state
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1724393
[ 4 ] Bug #1724398 - CVE-2019-0155 hw: Intel GPU blitter manipulation can allow for arbitrary kernel memory write
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1724398
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-1689d3fe07' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html
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