intel-microcode: update to 20180703 drop
Bug #1783385 reported by
Steve Beattie
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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intel-microcode (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Trusty |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Steve Beattie | ||
Xenial |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Steve Beattie | ||
Bionic |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Steve Beattie |
Bug Description
Intel has released a new version of their microcode, that starts to address Rogue System Register Read (RSRE, aka Spectre Variant 3a, CVE-2018-3640) and Speculative Store Bypass (SSB, aka Spectre Variant 4, CVE-2018-3639).
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This was fixed in cosmic in https:/ /launchpad. net/ubuntu/ +source/ intel-microcode /3.20180703. 2ubuntu1 ; pacakge for trusty, xenial, and bionic are available for testing in the ubuntu- security- proposed ppa: https:/ /launchpad. net/~ubuntu- security- proposed/ +archive/ ubuntu/ ppa/ . Please note that packages in this ppa are for testing only and have not been widely tested, and thus should not be used in production.
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