RHEA-2023:6637HighCVSS 7.5

Red Hat Enhancement Advisory: microcode_ctl bug fix and enhancement update

Published
November 7, 2023
Last Modified
August 6, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (2)

📋 Description

CVE-2022-21216 — kernel: Intel firmware update for insufficient granularity of access control in out-of-band management in some Intel Atom and Intel Xeon Scalable Processors CVE-2022-33196 — kernel: Intel firmware update for Incorrect default permissions in some memory controller configurations

🎯 Affected products3

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • microcode_ctl-4:20230808-2.el9.noarch as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)
  • microcode_ctl-4:20230808-2.el9.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9)

✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 Note: a system reboot is necessary for this update to take effect.

🔗 References (7)