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Intel distributes microcode updates for Linux here: https://github.com/intel/Intel-Linux-Processor-Microcode-Dat... , and the distro are all set up to pull from there and distribute automatically.

Not expert enough to know what to look for to see if these particular mitigations are present yet.



Researchers say this is CVE-2024-45332.

INTEL-SA-01247 covers that CVE.

Microcode release 20250512 has that INTEL-SA mitigated.

https://github.com/intel/Intel-Linux-Processor-Microcode-Dat...

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advi...


On an Ubuntu 24.04.2 machine:

   dpkg -l | grep microcode

   ii  amd64-microcode 3.20231019.1ubuntu2.1 amd64 Processor microcode firmware for AMD CPUs
   ii  intel-microcode 3.20250211.0ubuntu0.24.04.1 amd64 Processor microcode firmware for Intel CPUs
   ii  iucode-tool 2.3.1-3build1 amd64 Intel processor microcode tool




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