Microsoft Releases Microcode Updates for Sandy Bridge, Whiskey Lake U, and Other Intel CPUs

[Tsing]

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Intel users may want to check out Microsoft’s latest support document, which details several new microcode updates for the Denverton, Sandy Bridge (E, EP), Valley View, and Whiskey Lake U processor families. The patches address four nasty speculative execution flaws, such as the well-publicized ZombieLoad attack.



CVE-2019-11091 – Microarchitectural Data Sampling Uncacheable Memory (MDSUM)CVE-2018-12126 – Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data Sampling (MSBDS)CVE-2018-12127 – Microarchitectural Load Port Data Sampling (MLPDS)CVE-2018-12130 – Microarchitectural Fill Buffer Data Sampling (MFBDS)



The updates are available for all versions of Windows 10 (even older, unsupported builds), but users need to identify their...

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[Grimlakin]

Glad I'm on AMD... wow the hits keep on rolling for Intel Vulnerabilities.

 

[Burticus]

Glad I'm on AMD... wow the hits keep on rolling for Intel Vulnerabilities.

Tell me about it. At work we use these massive intel based blade server chassis and every one of these **** vulnerabilities requires a firmware update (esxi). It is the ruiner of weekends

 

[Grimlakin]

Tell me about it. At work we use these massive intel based blade server chassis and every one of these **** vulnerabilities requires a firmware update (esxi). It is the ruiner of weekends

Yea I hear you. I need to do another round of patching as well for these. It's crazy.