Updated dracut package fixes enabling microcode

The updated package fixes enabling early microcode on kernels 6.6+. On affected systems, CPU microcode updates were not loaded. CPU microcode updates are sometimes necessary in order to address important security vulnerabilities. If CPU microcode updates are not properly loaded, these security...

MGASA-2024-0025 Updated dracut package fixes enabling microcode

The updated package fixes enabling early microcode on kernels 6.6+. On affected systems, CPU microcode updates were not loaded. CPU microcode updates are sometimes necessary in order to address important security vulnerabilities. If CPU microcode updates are not properly loaded, these security...

Fedora 27 : dracut (2018-53f304b0d3)

Adds support for early microcode for AMD CPUs family = 0x17. Note: Intel CPU support is fine. To add the microcode to all your initramfs images: dracut --regenerate-all --force To only add it to the current kernel version: dracut --force Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the...

kernel: execution in the early microcode loader

A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the Linux kernel's early load microcode functionality. On a system with UEFI Secure Boot enabled, a local, privileged user could use this flaw to increase their privileges to the kernel ring0 level, bypassing intended restrictions in place...