Advisories » MGASA-2018-0260

Updated microcode packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 29 May 2018
Modification date: 29 May 2018
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 6
CVE: CVE-2017-5715

Description

This update adds microcode fixes and mitigations for Spectre
(CVE-2017-5715) for the following:

Intel Pentium Silver N/J5xxx, Celeron N/J4xxx
Intel Xeon E5/E7 v4; Core i7-69xx/68xx

Amd has also released their updated microcode for Fam15 and Fam17 cpus
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23062
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5715

SRPMS

6/nonfree

• microcode-0.20180425-1.mga6.nonfree