Red Hat Security Advisory: microcode_ctl security update
Affects Red Hat microcode_ctlSource GCVE Database
Mentioned vulnerabilities
Rated by Threat Radar
Data as of 13 Nov 2026, 18:32 UTC
What to do
AI-suggested
Red Hat has issued a security update for the microcode_ctl packages to address this vulnerability. Applying the updated microcode_ctl packages will mitigate the issue. No additional action is specified beyond applying the official update.
Description
The microcode_ctl packages for Intel and AMD processors received a security update addressing an industry-wide speculative execution vulnerability known as CVE-2017-5715. This flaw involves branch target injection that allows an unprivileged attacker to perform cache side-channel attacks to read privileged memory across syscall and guest/host boundaries. The update provides microcode fixes to mitigate this issue.
References
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0037 (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/ (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/speculativeexecution (opens in a new tab)
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5715 (opens in a new tab)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1519780 (opens in a new tab)
- security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2018/rhsa-2018_0037.json (opens in a new tab)