Intel has officially pushed out
microcode updates with Spectre and Meltdown mitigations for all of the processors it launched in the past five years.
Intel has officially pushed out
microcode updates with Spectre and Meltdown mitigations for all of the processors it launched in the past...
Not exact matches
Microsoft released a patch that delivers Intel's
microcode updates for Spectre to Windows 10 systems
with certain 6th - gen (Skylake) CPUs.
It's developing «optional»
microcode updates that will be delivered to customers and partners this week,
with additional
updates for older CPUs coming soon.
Intel has also
updated its original Meltdown - Spectre advisory
with a new warning about the stability issues and recommends OEMs and cloud providers test its beta silicon
microcode updates before final release.
We have removed the impacted BIOS
updates from our support pages and are working
with Intel on a new BIOS
update that will include new
microcode from Intel,» it said.
On Tuesday, HP pulled its softpaqs BIOS
updates with Intel's patches from its website, and on Thursday will release a BIOS
update with a previous version of Intel's
microcode.
Dell has now released new BIOS
updates with Intel's revised
microcode for datacenter servers and PowerEdge Server 14G, 13G, and 12G generation servers,
with 11G
updates still in process.
Chips
with production fixes in Intel's
microcode update guidance document have been validated by Intel and approved for use in a production environment.
So, to solve this mess, Microsoft has worked
with Intel to provide another way to get
microcode updates.
On Microsoft's official documentation page, Microsoft says it «is not aware of any issues that affect this
update currently,» but also that you should «consult
with your device manufacturer's and Intel's websites regarding their
microcode recommendation for your device before applying this
update to your device.»
All of the fixes have OS kernel components, and some of the fixes are combined
with processor
microcode updates in addition to kernel
updates.
Of course, Intel is already pushing out Spectre (and Meltdown) patches itself,
with numerous processor families seeing
microcode updates released in the past few weeks; but Intel doesn't supply these directly to end users.
On that side of the equation, Microsoft has also moved forward,
with the company announcing that it has increased the number of Intel
microcode updates that are available from the Microsoft Catalog.
For the former two, refreshed firmware
updates the processor
with new
microcode.
Intel says that processors
with a «Stopped» status will not receive
microcode updates.