The updates signal that Intel is making progress on reissuing stable
microcode mitigations for the Spectre attack revealed by Google on January 3.
Not exact matches
CVE -2017-5715 [branch target injection] aka «Spectre Variant 2» *
Mitigation 1 * Hardware (CPU microcode) support for mitigation: UNKNOWN (couldn't read / dev / cpu / 0 / msr, is msr support enabled in you
Mitigation 1 * Hardware (CPU
microcode) support for
mitigation: UNKNOWN (couldn't read / dev / cpu / 0 / msr, is msr support enabled in you
mitigation: UNKNOWN (couldn't read / dev / cpu / 0 / msr, is msr support enabled in your kernel?)
The
mitigations for Meltdown and Spectre have involved a combination of software fixes, such as Microsoft and Linux versions of «kernel page table isolation», and hardware fixes such as Intel's
microcode updates.
Intel has officially pushed out
microcode updates with Spectre and Meltdown
mitigations for all of the processors it launched in the past...
Intel has officially pushed out
microcode updates with Spectre and Meltdown
mitigations for all of the processors it launched in the past five years.
While industry partners had been working on developing the corresponding
mitigations for the critical hardware - based flaw, which could not be delivered as a
microcode update, the issue was substantial enough to prompt Microsoft to release the patch yesterday, ahead of next week's scheduled Patch Tuesday.