Security Update - Intel released Spectre patches for Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake, Skylake Platforms | Linux Today

Security Update – Intel released Spectre patches for Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake, Skylake Platforms

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Gurubaran
Feb 21, 2018

Intel released microcode updates to address Spectre vulnerability(CVE-2017-5715) for many of its chipsets including the recently announced Intel?? Xeon?? Scalable and Intel?? Xeon?? D processors for data center systems.

The Spectre attack breaks the isolation between the applications, it allows an attacker to trick legitimate applications into leaking their secrets.

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