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<body><div style="font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">kernel-ml 3.14.11-1 and now 3.14.12-1 is still running the old CPU microcode 0x22 version from 2017-01-27 which is insecure and was recently updated to help prevent the spectre security vulnerability in Intel / x86 architecture.<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">I forced initramfs to be regenerated but it made no difference.<br></div>
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<div style="font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="font" style="font-family: menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;"># uname -a</span><span class="font" style="font-family: menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div style="font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="font" style="font-family: menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;">Linux nas <b>4.14.12-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64</b> #1 SMP Fri Jan 5 13:28:56 EST 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux</span><span class="font" style="font-family: menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
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<div style="font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="font" style="font-family: menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;">~ [0] # dmesg|grep -i micro</span><span class="font" style="font-family: menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div style="font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="font" style="font-family: menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;">[ 0.000000] microcode: microcode updated early to revision <b>0x22, date = 2017-01-27</b></span><span class="font" style="font-family: menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div style="font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="font" style="font-family: menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;">[ 0.489107] microcode: sig=0x306c3, pf=0x2, revision=0x22</span><span class="font" style="font-family: menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div style="font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="font" style="font-family: menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;">[ 0.489551] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.2.</span><span class="font" style="font-family: menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
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<div style="font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="font" style="font-family: menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;">~ [0] # rpm -qa | egrep -i 'microcode|firmware|kernel-ml'| egrep -vi 'devel|crystalhd|alsa|aic94|3.10.0|ivtv'</span><span class="font" style="font-family: menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div style="font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="font" style="font-family: menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;">kernel-ml-4.14.11-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64</span><span class="font" style="font-family: menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div style="font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="font" style="font-family: menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;">kernel-ml-tools-libs-4.14.12-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64</span><span class="font" style="font-family: menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div style="font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="font" style="font-family: menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;">kernel-ml-headers-4.14.12-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64</span><span class="font" style="font-family: menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
<div style="font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="font" style="font-family: menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;">linux-firmware-20170606-57.gitc990aae.el7.noarch</span><span class="font" style="font-family: menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
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<div style="font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="font" style="font-family: menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;">microcode_ctl-2.1-22.2.el7.x86_64</span><span class="font" style="font-family: menlo, consolas, monospace, sans-serif;"><br></span></div>
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