-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2020-d5941ea479 2020-11-24 02:13:14.749404 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : microcode_ctl Product : Fedora 31 Version : 2.1 Release : 39.3.fc31 URL : https://pagure.io/microcode_ctl Summary : Tool to transform and deploy CPU microcode update for x86 Description : The microcode_ctl utility is a companion to the microcode driver written by Tigran Aivazian tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk.
The microcode update is volatile and needs to be uploaded on each system boot i.e. it doesn't reflash your cpu permanently, reboot and it reverts back to the old microcode.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
- Update to upstream 2.1-31. 20201118 - Removal of 06-8c-01/0x80 (TGL-UP3/UP4 B1) microcode at revision 0x68[1]; - Update of 06-7a-01/0x01 (GLK B0) microcode from revision 0x32 up to 0x34[2]. [1] The microcode has been removed after reports of system hangs: https://github.com/intel/Intel-Linux-Processor- Microcode-Data-Files/issues/44 [2] Addresses CVE-2020-8695 for this platform. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog:
* Fri Nov 20 2020 Eugene Syromiatnikov esyr@redhat.com 2:2.1-39.3 - Update to upstream 2.1-31. 20201118 - Removal of 06-8c-01/0x80 (TGL-UP3/UP4 B1) microcode at revision 0x68; - Update of 06-7a-01/0x01 (GLK B0) microcode from revision 0x32 up to 0x34. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-d5941ea479' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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