ELSA-2021-3027

ELSA-2021-3027 - microcode_ctl security, bug fix and enhancement update

Type:	SECURITY
Impact:	IMPORTANT
Release Date:	2021-08-09

Description

[4:20210216-1.20210608.0.1]
- add support for UEK6 kernels
- enable early update for 06-4f-01
- remove no longer appropriate caveats for 06-2d-07 and 06-55-04
- enable early and late load on RHCK

[4:20210216-1.20210608.1]
- Update Intel CPU microcode to microcode-20210608 release:
- Fixes in releasenote.md file.

[4:20210216-1.20210525.2]
- Make intel-06-2d-07, intel-06-4e-03, intel-06-4f-01, intel-06-55-04,
intel-06-5e-03, intel-06-8c-01, intel-06-8e-9e-0x-0xca,
and intel-06-8e-9e-0x-dell caveats dependent on intel caveat.
- Enable 06-8c-01 microcode update by default (#1972328).
- Enable 06-5e-03 microcode update by default (#1972325).

Related CVEs

CVE-2020-0543

CVE-2020-8698

CVE-2020-8695

CVE-2020-24489

CVE-2020-0549

CVE-2020-24512

CVE-2020-0548

CVE-2020-24511

CVE-2020-8696

Updated Packages

Release/Architecture	Filename	sha256	Superseded By Advisory	Channel Label
Oracle Linux 8 (aarch64)	microcode_ctl-20210216-1.20210608.1.0.1.el8_4.src.rpm	7fb082e869713fb8521ec6392fcba5be7e4dd68677d3ce8bdbb23c20272392ee	-	ol8_aarch64_baseos_latest
	microcode_ctl-20210216-1.20210608.1.0.1.el8_4.src.rpm	7fb082e869713fb8521ec6392fcba5be7e4dd68677d3ce8bdbb23c20272392ee	-	ol8_aarch64_u4_baseos_patch
Oracle Linux 8 (x86_64)	microcode_ctl-20210216-1.20210608.1.0.1.el8_4.src.rpm	7fb082e869713fb8521ec6392fcba5be7e4dd68677d3ce8bdbb23c20272392ee	-	ol8_x86_64_baseos_latest
	microcode_ctl-20210216-1.20210608.1.0.1.el8_4.src.rpm	7fb082e869713fb8521ec6392fcba5be7e4dd68677d3ce8bdbb23c20272392ee	-	ol8_x86_64_u4_baseos_patch
	microcode_ctl-20210216-1.20210608.1.0.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm	77073427058570f8d39bd0bf5288fc03550e55215ce8197c303805c0ab549ba0	-	ol8_x86_64_baseos_latest
	microcode_ctl-20210216-1.20210608.1.0.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm	77073427058570f8d39bd0bf5288fc03550e55215ce8197c303805c0ab549ba0	-	ol8_x86_64_u4_baseos_patch

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