Re: cpu-microcode-intel-20231114

From: infoomatic <infoomatic_at_gmx.at>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 14:27:46 UTC
pkg update -f

refreshes fetches your package catalogue (latest or quarterly - see
/etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf). After that you should be able to upgrade the
package.

Regards,
Robert


On 15.04.24 16:19, Marek Anioła wrote:
> No, it only shows the old version:
>
>    ~ # pkg search cpu-microcode-intel
>    cpu-microcode-intel-20231114   Intel CPU microcode updates
>    ~ #
>
> The latest version (20240312) is not available.
>
>
>
> From: Martin Simmons <martin@lispworks.com>
> Sent: Monday, April 15, 2024 15:56
> To: Marek Anioła <man130117@outlook.com>
> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
> Subject: Re: cpu-microcode-intel-20231114
>
>>>>>> On Mon, 15 Apr 2024 09:09:57 +0000, =?iso-8859-2?Q?Marek Anio=B3a?= said:
>>
>> As of 13 March 2024. "pkg audit" reports the following vulnerabilities in FreeBSD 13.3-RELEASE-p1:
>>
>> cpu-microcode-intel-20231114 is vulnerable:
>>    Intel processors - multiple vulnerabilities
>>    CVE: CVE-2023-43490
>>    CVE: CVE-2023-22655
>>    CVE: CVE-2023-28746
>>    CVE: CVE-2023-38575
>>    CVE: CVE-2023-39368
>>    WWW: https://vuxml.FreeBSD.org/freebsd/b6dd9d93-e09b-11ee-92fc-1c697a616631.html
>>
>> Found 1 issue(s) in 1 installed package(s).
>>
>> The website https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/cpu-microcode-intel/ shows that an update to the package appeared the day before (2024-03-12), but the BINARY package providing THE UPDATE IS STILL NOT AVAILABLE!
>>
>> Should this be the case?
>> Or, should I update the microcode in some other way?
>
> pkg search cpu-microcode-intel says the latest version is called
> cpu-microcode-intel-20240312.  I don't know why these packages have dates in
> their names so they don't upgrade automatically.