[ubuntu/xenial-updates] intel-microcode 3.20180425.1~ubuntu0.16.04.1 (Accepted)

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intel-microcode (3.20180425.1~ubuntu0.16.04.1) xenial-security; urgency=medium

  * SECURITY UPDATE: New upstream microcode data file 20180425 to
    provide IBRS/IBPB/STIBP microcode support for Spectre variant 2 mitigation
    for Pentium Silver N/J5xxx, Celeron N/J4xxx (sig 0x000706a1) and
    Xeon E5/E7 v4; Core i7-69xx/68xx (sig 0x000406f1) (LP: #1769043)
    - merge from Debian.

intel-microcode (3.20180425.1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream microcode data file 20180425 (closes: #897443, #895878)
    + Updated Microcodes:
      sig 0x000406f1, pf_mask 0xef, 2018-03-21, rev 0xb00002c, size 27648
      sig 0x000706a1, pf_mask 0x01, 2017-12-26, rev 0x0022, size 73728
    + Implements IBRS/IBPB/STIPB support, Spectre-v2 mitigation
    + Note that sig 0x000604f1 has been blacklisted from late-loading
      since Debian release 3.20171117.1.
  * source: remove undesired list files from microcode directories
  * source: switch to microcode-<id>.d/ since Intel dropped .dat
    support.

Date: 2018-05-04 07:46:12.103188+00:00
Changed-By: Steve Beattie <sbeattie at ubuntu.com>
Signed-By: Ubuntu Archive Robot <cjwatson+ubuntu-archive-robot at chiark.greenend.org.uk>
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/intel-microcode/3.20180425.1~ubuntu0.16.04.1
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