Debian DLA-2051-1 : intel-microcode security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 132513

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

This update ships updated CPU microcode for some types of Intel CPUs.
In particular it provides mitigations for the TAA (TSX Asynchronous Abort) vulnerability. For affected CPUs, to fully mitigate the vulnerability it is also necessary to update the Linux kernel packages as released in DLA 1989-1.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 3.20191115.2~deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your intel-microcode packages.

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

Solution

Upgrade the affected intel-microcode package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 132513

File Name: debian_DLA-2051.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 12/31/2019

Updated: 4/2/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, 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:debian:debian_linux:intel-microcode, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/30/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/14/2019

Reference Information

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

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