A microcode_ctl security, bug fix and enhancement update been released for Oracle Linux 8.

El-errata: ELSA-2020-2431 Moderate: Oracle Linux 8 microcode_ctl security, bug fix and enhancement update

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2020-2431

  http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2020-2431.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the
Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
microcode_ctl-20191115-4.20200602.2.el8_2.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
  http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/microcode_ctl-20191115-4.20200602.2.el8_2.src.rpm


Description of changes:

[4:20191115-4.20200602.2]
- Avoid temporary file creation, used for here-documents in check_caveats.

[4:20191115-4.20200602.1]
- Update Intel CPU microcode to microcode-20200602 release, addresses
CVE-2020-0543, CVE-2020-0548, CVE-2020-0549 (#1827183):
- Update of 06-2d-06/0x6d (SNB-E/EN/EP C1/M0) microcode from revision 0x61f
up to 0x621;
- Update of 06-2d-07/0x6d (SNB-E/EN/EP C2/M1) microcode from revision 0x718
up to 0x71a;
- Update of 06-3c-03/0x32 (HSW C0) microcode from revision 0x27 up to 0x28;
- Update of 06-3d-04/0xc0 (BDW-U/Y E0/F0) microcode from revision 0x2e
up to 0x2f;
- Update of 06-45-01/0x72 (HSW-U C0/D0) microcode from revision 0x25
up to 0x26;
- Update of 06-46-01/0x32 (HSW-H C0) microcode from revision 0x1b up to
0x1c;
- Update of 06-47-01/0x22 (BDW-H/Xeon E3 E0/G0) microcode from revision 0x21
up to 0x22;
- Update of 06-4e-03/0xc0 (SKL-U/Y D0) microcode from revision 0xd6
up to 0xdc;
- Update of 06-55-03/0x97 (SKX-SP B1) microcode from revision 0x1000151
up to 0x1000157;
- Update of 06-55-04/0xb7 (SKX-SP H0/M0/U0, SKX-D M1) microcode
(in intel-06-55-04/intel-ucode/06-55-04) from revision 0x2000065
up to 0x2006906;
- Update of 06-55-06/0xbf (CLX-SP B0) microcode from revision 0x400002c
up to 0x4002f01;
- Update of 06-55-07/0xbf (CLX-SP B1) microcode from revision 0x500002c
up to 0x5002f01;
- Update of 06-5e-03/0x36 (SKL-H/S R0/N0) microcode from revision 0xd6
up to 0xdc;
- Update of 06-7e-05/0x80 (ICL-U/Y D1) microcode from revision 0x46
up to 0x78;
- Update of 06-8e-09/0x10 (AML-Y22 H0) microcode from revision 0xca
up to 0xd6;
- Update of 06-8e-09/0xc0 (KBL-U/Y H0) microcode from revision 0xca
up to 0xd6;
- Update of 06-8e-0a/0xc0 (CFL-U43e D0) microcode from revision 0xca
up to 0xd6;
- Update of 06-8e-0b/0xd0 (WHL-U W0) microcode from revision 0xca
up to 0xd6;
- Update of 06-8e-0c/0x94 (AML-Y42 V0, CML-Y42 V0, WHL-U V0) microcode
from revision 0xca up to 0xd6;
- Update of 06-9e-09/0x2a (KBL-G/H/S/X/Xeon E3 B0) microcode from revision
0xca up to 0xd6;
- Update of 06-9e-0a/0x22 (CFL-H/S/Xeon E3 U0) microcode from revision 0xca
up to 0xd6;
- Update of 06-9e-0b/0x02 (CFL-S B0) microcode from revision 0xca up to
0xd6;
- Update of 06-9e-0c/0x22 (CFL-H/S P0) microcode from revision 0xca
up to 0xd6;
- Update of 06-9e-0d/0x22 (CFL-H R0) microcode from revision 0xca up to
0xd6.
- Change the URL to point to the GitHub repository since the microcode
download
section at Intel Download Center does not exist anymore.

[4:20191115-4.20191115.6]
- Narrow down SKL-SP/W/X blacklist to exclude Server/FPGA/Fabric segment
models.

[4:20191115-4.20191115.5]
- Re-generate initramfs not only for the currently running kernel,
but for several recently installed kernels as well.