Intel bug incoming? Meltdown and Spectre exploits

[pete910]

It's to force users to win 10

*tin foil hat off

Another here
https://www.securityweek.com/intel-cpus-vulnerable-new-branchscope-attack

 

[V F]

Well this is just great!




https://blog.frizk.net/2018/03/total-meltdown.html?m=1

Wait, what?... and people said it was foolish to not patch...

Is my system vulnerable?
Only Windows 7 x64 systems patched with the 2018-01 or 2018-02 patches are vulnerable. If your system isn't patched since December 2017 or if it's patched with the 2018-03 patches or later it will be secure.

This is why I never rush with updates. I haven't had any updates since December.

 

[Rroff]

Wait, what?... and people said it was foolish to not patch...

I just knew there was a reason I just made sure I was using a browser patched against it and avoided OS/BIOS updates.

 

[humbug]

It's to force users to win 10

*tin foil hat off

Another here
https://www.securityweek.com/intel-cpus-vulnerable-new-branchscope-attack

Lol....

 

[humbug]

The more interesting news is more variants of Meltdown and Specter have been found.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.03802.pd

Oh... and err.... tin foil hats at the ready.

7. Acknowledgements
This work is sponsored in part by C-FAR, a funded center
of STARnet, a Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC)
program sponsored by MARCO and DARPA, and in part by
an NVIDIA Graduate Research Fellowship.

 

[Hotwired]

Fix a bug... now infested with new and worse bugs

 

[C-Roy]

Nice of them

 

[DragonQ]

What a mess. I've already pushed 2018-03 updates to all my Windows 7 and 10 machines though so doesn't affect me.

 

[pastymuncher]

Still no Spectre fix for Haswell on either of our Gigabyte or Asus boards and I doubt that we will ever get one.

 

[CONSOLE_BUTCHER]

How are the microcode updates delivered? I have a 6600k skylake.

 

[pete910]

How are the microcode updates delivered? I have a 6600k skylake.

Via bios updates normally

 

[CONSOLE_BUTCHER]

Via bios updates normally

I just updated my bios to the latest version , would it be included with that ?

 

[pete910]

I just updated my bios to the latest version , would it be included with that ?

Should be, depends on the release date of the bios you have installed. See if there is a change log/notes on the MB vendors site .

 

[CONSOLE_BUTCHER]

Should be, depends on the release date of the bios you have installed. See if there is a change log/notes on the MB vendors site .

Checked the bios release and it was 2017/03/14, the last microcode update was on the 9th of this month, will that include everything to date?

 

[pete910]

Checked the bios release and it was 2017/03/14, the last microcode update was on the 9th of this month, will that include everything to date?

Unlikely as the microcode updates started this year

 

[CONSOLE_BUTCHER]

Unlikely as the microcode updates started this year

So i would have to download them all and install them one by one, starting with the earliest ...

 

[pete910]

So i would have to download them all and install them one by one, starting with the earliest ...

No, just the latest released bios. But until there is one you wont have the relevent updates.

What Motherboard you got ?

 

[CONSOLE_BUTCHER]

No, just the latest released bios. But until there is one you wont have the relevent updates.

What Motherboard you got ?

Gigabyte ga z170mx, there is a microcode update from 30/06/2017 then 01/12/2017 and the las one was 09/03/2018

 

[pete910]

F22f is the one you want. providing it is the rev 1.0 gaming 5 board you have

 

[CONSOLE_BUTCHER]

F22f is the one you want.

Cool, i already have them all(just incase)on usb in a folder called BIOS do i just restart and ez qflash from within the bios?