Vulnerabilities fixed in Intel BIOS

Intel has fixed vulnerabilities in the BIOS which is used along with specific Xeon and Atom processors. The vulnerabilities enable a locally authenticated malicious person to opportunity to obtain elevated privileges. The malicious party needs physical access to the vulnerable machine to do so...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : ucode-intel (SUSE-SU-2020:3276-1)

This update for ucode-intel fixes the following issues : Intel CPU Microcode updated to 20201027 prerelease CVE-2020-8695: Fixed Intel RAPL sidechannel attack SGX bsc1170446 CVE-2020-8698: Fixed Fast Store Forward Predictor INTEL-SA-00381 bsc1173594 New Platforms: | Processor | Stepping | F-M-S/P...

Intel BIOS Platform Sample Code Advisory

Summary: Potential security vulnerabilities in Intel BIOS platform sample code for some Intel® Processors may allow escalation of privilege. Intel is releasing BIOS platform sample code updates to mitigate these potential vulnerabilities. Vulnerability Details: CVEID: CVE-2020-8764 Description:...

2020.2 IPU – BIOS Advisory

Summary: Potential security vulnerabilities in the BIOS firmware for some Intel® Processors may allow escalation of privilege or denial of service. Intel is releasing firmware updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability. Vulnerability Details: CVEID: CVE-2020-0590 Description: Improper input...

Intel Adds Memory Encryption, Firmware Security to Ice Lake Chips

Intel’s third-generation Xeon Scalable server processors, code-named Ice Lake, will be rolled out with new security upgrades that the chip giant claims will better protect devices from firmware attacks. The upcoming chips are based on Ice Lake, Intel’s 10nm CPU microarchitecture, which was first...

2019.2 IPU – Intel® Processor Security Advisory

Summary: Potential security vulnerabilities in System Management Mode SMM and Intel® Trusted Execution Technology TXT for some Intel® Core™ Processors and Intel® Xeon® Processors may allow escalation of privilege, denial of service or information disclosure. Intel is releasing firmware updates to...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : Intel MCE vulnerability (K17269881)

Improper invalidation for page table updates by a virtual guest operating system for multiple IntelR Processors may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable denial of service of the host system via local access. CVE-2018-12207 Impact A privileged guest user may use this flaw to induce a...

microcode_ctl security, bug fix and enhancement update

3:1.17-33.26.0.1 - update 06-2d-07 to 0x71a - update 06-55-04 to 0x2006906 - update 06-55-07 to 0x5002f01 - merge Oracle changes for early load via dracut - enable late load on install for UEK4 kernels marked safe except BDW-79 - set earlymicrocode='no' in virtualized guests to avoid early load...

Debian DSA-4701-1 : intel-microcode - security update

This update ships updated CPU microcode for some types of Intel CPUs and provides mitigations for the Special Register Buffer Data Sampling CVE-2020-0543 , Vector Register Sampling CVE-2020-0548 and L1D Eviction Sampling CVE-2020-0549 hardware vulnerabilities. The microcode update for HEDT and Xe...

USN-4393-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Marvell WiFi-Ex Driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate status lengths in messages received from an access point, leading to a buffer overflow. A physically proximate attacker controlling an access point could use this to construct messages that could...

MGASA-2020-0229 Updated microcode packages fix security issues

This microcode updates provides new microcode versions for the following Intel Ice Lake and Sandy Bride family processors: Processor Stepping Model Update Name - ICL-U/Y D1 6-7e-5/80 00000046-00000078 Core Gen10 Mobile - SNB-E/EN/EP C1/M0 6-2d-6/6d 0000061f-00000621 Xeon E3/E5, Core X - SNB-E/EN/...

RSA-250 Factored

RSA-250 has been factored. This computation was performed with the Number Field Sieve algorithm, using the open-source CADO-NFS software. The total computation time was roughly 2700 core-years, using Intel Xeon Gold 6130 CPUs as a reference 2.1GHz: RSA-250 sieving: 2450 physical core-years RSA-25...

Intel® Processors Voltage Settings Modification Advisory

Summary: A potential security vulnerability in some Intel® Processors may allow escalation of privilege and/or information disclosure. Intel has released firmware updates to system manufacturers to mitigate this potential vulnerability Vulnerability Details: CVEID: CVE-2019-11157 Description:...

CVE-2019-11184

A flaw has been discovered in which an attacker can infer SSH keystrokes when after a victim connects to a compromised host. The attacker must compromise a server that the victim is connecting to and be able to groom the CPU cache on the system prior to or while a connection is in progress. The...

hw: voltage modulation technical advisory

Improper conditions check in the voltage modulation interface for some IntelR XeonR Scalable Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable denial of service via local access...

Intel Manycore Platform Software Stack (MPSS) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

The Intel Manycore Platform Software Stack MPSS is a manycore platform software stack developed by Intel Corporation USA that is required to run the Intel XeonPhi coprocessor. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Intel Manycore Platform Software Stack MPSS. An attacker could exploit...

Security Bulletin: IBM has released Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) fixes in response to Intel escalation of privilege vulnerability.

Summary IBM has released the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface UEFI fixes for System x, Flex and BladeCenter systems in response to the following Intel escalation of privilege vulnerability. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2019-0151 DESCRIPTION: Insufficient memory protection in IntelR TXT f...

Intel® Processor Graphics Advisory

Summary: A potential security vulnerability in Intel® Processor Graphics may allow information disclosure. Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability. Vulnerability Details: CVEID: CVE-2019-14615 Description: Insufficient control flow in certain data structures f...

NewStart CGSL CORE 5.05 / MAIN 5.05 : kernel-rt Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2020-0008)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version CORE 5.05 / MAIN 5.05, has kernel-rt packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - Insufficient access control in subsystem for Intel R processor graphics in 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th Generation IntelR CoreTM Processor Families;...

NewStart CGSL CORE 5.05 / MAIN 5.05 : kernel Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2020-0002)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version CORE 5.05 / MAIN 5.05, has kernel packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - Improper invalidation for page table updates by a virtual guest operating system for multiple IntelR Processors may allow an authenticated user to...