ISN 2020-05: Intel Chipset Vulnerabilities

Announced 9 June 2020

Score: Medium

A vulnerability in Intel chipsets affects the following IGEL hardware:

• IGEL UD 2 (M250C) with BIOS versions before v3.D.13-05292019 (July 2019)
• IGEL UD 6 (H830C) with BIOS versions before v.3.3.13-05232019 (July 2019)

Details

A potential security vulnerability in Intel CPUs may allow information disclosure.

Update Instructions

IGEL OS users need not update the BIOS/UEFI. Instead, the microcode released by Intel will be applied at boot time by IGEL OS.

• IGEL OS 11: Update to IGEL OS 11.03.580 or newer
• IGEL OS 10: Update to IGEL OS 10.06.180 or newer

References

INTEL-SA-00233 “Microarchitectural Data Sampling Advisory”: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00233.html