On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 09:37:55PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 05:27:18PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
> >
> > I then found a link to intel:
> > https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00115.html
> > which makes me guess that the current microcode update is for
> > CVE-2018-3640 – Rogue System Register Read (RSRE) – also known as
> > Variant 3a.
> >
> Wrong!
>
> For some reason, not yet understood, the firmware initrd I used for
> the latest build on my haswell was apparently not up to date. Looks
> as if what I put in the book for the example was similarly out of
> date. I need to try to understand how that happened, before I
> update that page.
In fact, the example in the book is fine. What happened is that I
reused a filesystem for my current build, and edited the grub.cfg
entry to refer to the new kernel - but left the old initrd instead
of replacing it with the new one. <sigh/>
ĸen
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