sys-firmware/intel-microcode: Rev bump for CVE-2017-5715 mitigation
authorThomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org>
Thu, 4 Jan 2018 16:24:38 +0000 (17:24 +0100)
committerThomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org>
Thu, 4 Jan 2018 16:24:55 +0000 (17:24 +0100)
commite6ea9dcb23142a268cef722793a408071677d6b1
tree3c2d353e40b51102c6a0ff64fdb3a91a0afc938f
parentfccaf0ae53dc43de3b79968ce6bdf169e9dd0ddd
sys-firmware/intel-microcode: Rev bump for CVE-2017-5715 mitigation

The CPU microcode for Intel Haswell-X, Skylake-X and Broadwell-X
chipsets was updated to report both branch prediction control via CPUID
flag and ability to control branch prediction via an MSR register.

Required for kernel mitigation against CVE-2017-5715.

Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/643430
Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.19, Repoman-2.3.6
sys-firmware/intel-microcode/Manifest
sys-firmware/intel-microcode/intel-microcode-20171117_p20171215.ebuild [new file with mode: 0644]