on debian oldstable jessie
I have a mystery about Intel microcode revisions. I have a small lenovo server and was wondering about the intel memory sinkhole (howler) vulnerability. According to what I read on a gentoo forum I should be vulnerable as it is a core 2 duo, 2 generations behind when Intel fixed that bug. Also the bios version is 8 bins behind:
https://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/p ... cj977a.txt
Here is cpuinfo for proc 0:
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processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 23
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz
stepping : 10
microcode : 0xa07
cpu MHz : 2000.000
cache size : 6144 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 13
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts nopl aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 xsave lahf_lm dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority
bogomips : 5984.99
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8 ... eac645cfe6FYI: one actually wants revision 0x1D of that microcode to protect oneself against the "LAPIC memory sinkhole" security vulnerability (I've heard HP has it for most/all(?) of their Xeon 56xx/36xx servers, I don't know about other vendors). Revision 0x1A (which is easier to find on server/workstation BIOS updates) is also good, in that it should fix most of the issues, but it does not fix the LAPIC memory sinkhole security vulnerability.
So I need 0x1D and I have oxa07. It looks good but... I never installed any microcode from non-free! How is it possible I have such a high revision reported by cpuinfo? Is it wrong?
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# aptitude search micro | grep '^i'
#
# dmidecode | grep 'Version'
Version: 5CKT62AUS
Version: ThinkCentre M58p
Version: NONE
Version: NONE
Version: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz