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Re: intel-microcode not fixing CVE-2018-3640, CVE-2018-3615 on Debian 10?

From Christoph Pflügler <christoph@pfluegler.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.security
Subject Re: intel-microcode not fixing CVE-2018-3640, CVE-2018-3615 on Debian 10?
Date 2021-01-08 22:50 +0100
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On 08.01.21 22:34, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 08, 2021 at 09:12:53PM +0100, Christoph Pflügler wrote:
>> Installing package intel-microcode in Debian 10 (Buster) mitigates 
>> most vulnerabilities as per spectre-meltdown-checker. However, 
>> CVE-2018-3640 and CVE-2018-3615 are still displayed as unmitigated 
>> after reboot, with spectre-meltdown-checker --explain (executed as 
>> su) pointing to missing microcode upgrades.
>>
>> According to the Debian package description of intel-microcode, the 
>> two vulnerabilities are fixed in the current version of the package.
>>
>> This occurs in exactly the same way on two different machines, one 
>> with an i5-3320M CPU and another one with an E3-1235L v5.
>>
>> If I remember correctly, I was all green as per 
>> spectre-meltdown-checker in Debian 9 (Stretch).
>
> What version of intel-microcode do you have installed?
intel-microcode:amd64/buster 3.20200616.1~deb10u1 uptodate, installed 
from Debian non-free repository

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intel-microcode not fixing CVE-2018-3640, CVE-2018-3615 on Debian 10? Christoph Pflügler <christoph@pfluegler.net> - 2021-01-08 21:30 +0100
  Re: intel-microcode not fixing CVE-2018-3640, CVE-2018-3615 on Debian  10? Christoph Pflügler <christoph@pfluegler.net> - 2021-01-08 22:50 +0100
    Re: intel-microcode not fixing CVE-2018-3640, CVE-2018-3615 on  Debian 10? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2021-01-08 23:50 +0100
      Re: intel-microcode not fixing CVE-2018-3640, CVE-2018-3615 on Debian  10? Christoph Pflügler <christoph@pfluegler.net> - 2021-01-09 15:50 +0100
        Re: intel-microcode not fixing CVE-2018-3640, CVE-2018-3615 on Debian  10? James Wallen <jpwallen@comcast.net> - 2021-01-09 21:00 +0100
          Re: intel-microcode not fixing CVE-2018-3640, CVE-2018-3615 on Debian  10? Giacomo Catenazzi <cate@debian.org> - 2021-01-12 17:40 +0100
            Re: intel-microcode not fixing CVE-2018-3640, CVE-2018-3615 on  Debian 10? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2021-01-13 17:20 +0100
              Re: intel-microcode not fixing CVE-2018-3640, CVE-2018-3615 on Debian  10? Christoph Pflügler <christoph@pfluegler.net> - 2021-01-13 22:00 +0100
                Re: intel-microcode not fixing CVE-2018-3640, CVE-2018-3615 on  Debian 10? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2021-01-14 00:00 +0100
                Re: intel-microcode not fixing CVE-2018-3640, CVE-2018-3615 on Debian  10? Christoph Pflügler <christoph@pfluegler.net> - 2021-01-14 18:30 +0100
  Re: intel-microcode not fixing CVE-2018-3640, CVE-2018-3615 on  Debian 10? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2021-01-08 22:50 +0100

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