Intel Has to Delay Patches for new Spectre-NG Vulnerabilities
Last week we reported about Spectre-NG, eight new vulnerabilities similar to Spectre, of which four tagged as critical have been detected. Intel would have been working behind scenes on patching the new vulnerabilities, as it now seems it will take at least another two weeks before Intel can release the initial patches.
The news is reported today by Heise in Germany and is based on sources that are familiar with Intel's patch plans. From the looks of it, Intel is not capable of finishing up the patches before the disclosure publication date of what the new vulnerabilities mean and are. Up-to-now, any and all technical information on the Spectre-NG variants are disclosed. Likely all detected and to be published by Google Project Zero.
Intel set a new target for initial patches and firmware updates at the 21st of May, however also indicated they might not make that date and if so, requested technical disclosure until July 10th 2018. New microcode updates are due to be released on this date. At the same time, technical information on the nature of at least two of the Specter NG vulnerabilities are likely to be published. Heise states that a wide number of systems would be affected by the leaks including pretty much Core-i processors, Xeon variants, as well as Pentium and Celeron proc based Atom CPUs released ever since 2013. Later in August, it will address and patch the most serious leak that involves virtualized environments like cloud hosts, making it possible to obtain secure information directly from the CPU. The patch date for that specific vulnerability would be August 14 according to Heise. AMD has indicated it is investigating all reports. It is completely unclear whether the company was affected by the vulnerabilities as well.
To secure the architecture, Intel plans a combination of hardware updates in the form of new microcode and software improvements that the operating system manufacturers have to implement.
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We laugh hard here,but the guys who take care of a data center,web server-mail,etc, they dont.They will have hard times with the Intel Xeon cpus.
If Intel will mitigate AVX/2,they're doomed.
I am laughing, because comments here are funny. And I know exactly what's coming. I've seen effects of 1st patches and feel consequences even today...
So, what coming after following patches? HW refreshes. And guess whose CPUs are going to go into those data centers? Yep, again intel.
Somewhere for some smaller company there may be AMD server here and there. But in big business, you do not move to AMD as they are unable to supply required volume.
So intel actually getting boost in data center revenue. At least AMD is getting small part of pie.
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more issues that are nearly impossible to get any critical data with.
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Not to get too political, but the world should be thankingTrump right now for taking on the Shadow Government bullshit. Trump has the Shadow Government so scared it is unreal.
America=the world? o_O
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My theory : This spectre was created by the NSA. It is not only for computers but for any device with a micro-processor. The idea is to a create a ghost inside every device around the world that can be traced easily and efficiently.
Intel is delaying the patch ? makes no sense, unless Intel knew directly what these vulnerabilities where for, ghosting people of interest, aka everyone.
Not to get too political, but the world should be thankingTrump right now for taking on the Shadow Government bullshit. Trump has the Shadow Government so scared it is unreal.
My good god you need a tinfoil hat pronto
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My theory : This spectre was created by the NSA. It is not only for computers but for any device with a micro-processor. The idea is to a create a ghost inside every device around the world that can be traced easily and efficiently.
Intel is delaying the patch ? makes no sense, unless Intel knew directly what these vulnerabilities where for, ghosting people of interest, aka everyone.
Not to get too political, but the world should be thankingTrump right now for taking on the Shadow Government bullshit. Trump has the Shadow Government so scared it is unreal.
They don't need spectre. They have facebook
For me the main concern is that these exploits are known for the intel hardware designers for at least 4-5 years. I cannot imagine why they did not fix these exploits. What is the cause? What was their purpose?
As with anything, things are never quite that simple