Spectre, Google, and the Universal Read Gadget

Spectre, a seemingly never ending menace to processors, is back in the limelight once again thanks to the Universal Read Gadget. First seen at the start of 2018, Spectre emerged alongside Meltdown as a major potential threat to people’s system security. Meltdown and Spectre Meltdown targeted Inte...

AMD Rolls Out Spectre Fixes

AMD said that CPU firmware and Windows 10 patches are now available to safeguard its products against the Spectre security flaw. Mark Papermaster, senior vice president and chief technology officer at AMD, said in a Tuesday post that Spectre fixes are available for AMD customers, who can download...

Updated microcode packages fix security vulnerabilities

This update provides microcode fixes and mitigations for Spectre CVE-2017-5715 for many Intel CPUs produced in the last 5 years. So far the Intel microcode updates are for several processors from the Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake, Gemini Lake, Apollo Lake, Crystal Well and I...

CVE-2017-7262

The AMD Ryzen processor with AGESA microcode through 2017-01-27 allows local users to cause a denial of service system hang via an application that makes a long series of FMA3 instructions, as demonstrated by the Flops test suite...

Enhanced Protection of UEFI Variables

Summary: New BIOS updates are available for Intel products, enhancing the hardening of certain UEFI variables against potential modification. Intel highly recommends that users install the updates to mitigate this exposure. Description: Intel has become aware that certain firmware implementations...

Intel® Desktop and Intel® Server Boards Privilege Escalation

Summary: Software running administrative ring 0 privilege can under certain circumstances change code running in System Management Mode. Description: To mitigate reported privilege escalation issues, BIOS updates are available for specific Intel motherboards. These changes would help prevent a...

[security bulletin] HPSBGN02305 SSRT080004 rev.1 - HP Compaq Business Notebook PC BIOS, Local Denial of Service (DoS)

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 SUPPORT COMMUNICATION - SECURITY BULLETIN Document ID: c01327854 Version: 1 HPSBGN02305 SSRT080004 rev.1 - HP Compaq Business Notebook PC BIOS, Local Denial of Service DoS NOTICE: The information in this Security Bulletin should be acted upon as soon ...