Ubuntu Security Update USN-7848-1: AMD Microcode vulnerabilities

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Oleksii Oleksenko, Cedric Fournet, Jana Hofmann, Boris Köpf, Stavros Volos, and Flavien Solt discovered that some AMD processors may allow an attacker to infer data from previous stores. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information. This update provides the updated microcode mitigations required for the corresponding Linux kernel update.

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