Re: Intel Microcode updates

From	Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.security
Subject	Re: Intel Microcode updates
Date	2019-06-11 14:00 +0200
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On Tuesday, 11 June 2019 12:19:14 PM AEST Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jun 2019, Russell Coker wrote:
> > model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU    Q9505  @ 2.83GHz
> > 
> > On a system with the above CPU running Debian/Testing I get the following
> > results from the spectre-meltdown-checker script.  Is this a bug in the
> > intel- microcode package that the latest version isn't packaged?  There
> > is no newer version of intel-microcode in Unstable.
> 
> Intel upstream decided to not distribute it, for whatever reason.  The
> Core2 will not get any fixes for MDS either (nor will Nehalem and
> Westmere).
> 
> It is easy enough to source that microcode update if you look for it,
> and you can just drop it on /usr/share/misc/intel-microcode.bin with
> intel-microcode installed, and update the initramfs.  It will pick the
> extra microcode up.

Should it be regarded as a bug in the intel-microcode package that it doesn't 
have this update that is "easy enough to source"?  Or do you mean "easy to get 
but not licensed for distribution"?

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Intel Microcode updates Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> - 2019-06-10 06:10 +0200
  Re: Intel Microcode updates Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-06-10 13:20 +0200
    Re: Intel Microcode updates Davide Prina <davide.prina@gmail.com> - 2019-06-10 19:50 +0200
      Re: Intel Microcode updates Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-06-10 20:40 +0200
        Re: Intel Microcode updates Davide Prina <davide.prina@gmail.com> - 2019-06-11 20:10 +0200
          Re: Intel Microcode updates Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-06-11 22:00 +0200
    Re: Intel Microcode updates Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> - 2019-06-11 14:00 +0200
  Re: Intel Microcode updates Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2019-06-11 04:20 +0200
    Re: Intel Microcode updates Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> - 2019-06-11 14:00 +0200
      Re: Intel Microcode updates Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> - 2019-06-11 14:30 +0200
        Re: Intel Microcode updates Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2019-06-12 17:00 +0200
          Re: Intel Microcode updates Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com> - 2019-06-18 13:00 +0200
            Re: Intel Microcode updates Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2019-06-23 22:30 +0200
              Re: Intel Microcode updates Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com> - 2019-06-23 22:40 +0200
                Re: Intel Microcode updates Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2019-06-24 04:10 +0200
              Re: Intel Microcode updates Davide Prina <davide.prina@gmail.com> - 2019-06-24 19:40 +0200
          Re: Intel Microcode updates Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com> - 2019-06-18 22:10 +0200
          Re: Intel Microcode updates Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com> - 2019-06-22 14:30 +0200
    Re: Intel Microcode updates Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2019-06-11 19:10 +0200
      Re: Intel Microcode updates Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2019-06-11 19:20 +0200
        Re: Intel Microcode updates Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2019-06-11 21:10 +0200
          Re: Intel Microcode updates Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2019-06-11 21:20 +0200
            Re: Intel Microcode updates Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com> - 2019-06-18 11:20 +0200
              Re: Intel Microcode updates Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2019-06-18 20:30 +0200
                Re: Intel Microcode updates Rob van der Putten <rob@sput.nl> - 2019-06-20 14:40 +0200
            Re: Intel Microcode updates Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com> - 2019-06-18 22:10 +0200
            Re: Intel Microcode updates Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com> - 2019-06-22 14:30 +0200
    Re: Intel Microcode updates Davide Prina <davide.prina@gmail.com> - 2019-06-23 10:00 +0200
      Re: Intel Microcode updates Lou Poppler <LouPoppler@cableone.net> - 2019-06-24 02:20 +0200
        Re: Intel Microcode updates Davide Prina <davide.prina@gmail.com> - 2019-06-24 20:00 +0200

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