DSA-4447-1 intel-microcode -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4447-1 intel-microcode -- security update

Date Reported:

15 May 2019

Affected Packages:

intel-microcode

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-12126, CVE-2018-12127, CVE-2018-12130, CVE-2019-11091.

More information:

This update ships updated CPU microcode for most types of Intel CPUs. It provides mitigations for the MSBDS, MFBDS, MLPDS and MDSUM hardware vulnerabilities.

To fully resolve these vulnerabilities it is also necessary to update the Linux kernel packages as released in DSA 4444.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 3.20190514.1~deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your intel-microcode packages.

For the detailed security status of intel-microcode please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/intel-microcode