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SUSE SLES11 Security Update : microcode_ctl (SUSE-SU-2018:2076-1) (Spectre)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 111373

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for microcode_ctl fixes the following issues: The Intel CPU Microcode bundle was updated to the 20180703 release For the listed CPU chipsets this fixes CVE-2018-3640 (Spectre v3a) and helps mitigating CVE-2018-3639 (Spectre v4) (bsc#1100147 bsc#1087082 bsc#1087083) More details can be found on:
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/27945/Linux-Processor-Microc ode-D ata-File Following chipsets are fixed in this round: Model Stepping F-MO-S/PI Old->New

---- updated platforms ------------------------------------ SNB-EP C1 6-2d-6/6d 0000061c->0000061d Xeon E5 SNB-EP C2 6-2d-7/6d 00000713->00000714 Xeon E5 IVT C0 6-3e-4/ed 0000042c->0000042d Xeon E5 v2; Core i7-4960X/4930K/4820K IVT D1 6-3e-7/ed 00000713->00000714 Xeon E5 v2 HSX-E/EP/4S C0 6-3f-2/6f 0000003c->0000003d Xeon E5 v3 HSX-EX E0 6-3f-4/80 00000011->00000012 Xeon E7 v3 SKX-SP/D/W/X H0 6-55-4/b7 02000043->0200004d Xeon Bronze 31xx, Silver 41xx, Gold 51xx/61xx Platinum 81xx, D/W-21xx; Core i9-7xxxX BDX-DE A1 6-56-5/10 0e000009->0e00000a Xeon D-15x3N BDX-ML B/M/R0 6-4f-1/ef 0b00002c->0b00002e Xeon E5/E7 v4; Core i7-69xx/68xx

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 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch slessp4-microcode_ctl-13704=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3-LTSS:zypper in -t patch slessp3-microcode_ctl-13704=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3:zypper in -t patch sleposp3-microcode_ctl-13704=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1087082

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1087083

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1100147

http://www.nessus.org/u?97303a3b

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3639/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-3640/

http://www.nessus.org/u?56ab3e55

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 111373

File Name: suse_SU-2018-2076-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/27/2018

Updated: 9/2/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-3640

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 5.1

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:microcode_ctl, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11

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: 7/26/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/22/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-3639, CVE-2018-3640