Microsoft Issues Rare Out-of-Band Emergency Windows Update For Processor Security Bugs (theverge.com)

Posted by msmash on Thursday January 4, 2018 @03:20AM from the racing-to-fix-things dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft is issuing a rare out-of-band security update to supported versions of Windows today (Wednesday). The software update is part of a number of fixes that will protect against a newly-discovered processor bug in Intel, AMD, and ARM chipsets. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans tell The Verge that the company will issue a Windows update that will be automatically applied to Windows 10 machines at 5PM ET / 2PM PT today. The update will also be available for older and supported versions of Windows today, but systems running operating systems like Windows 7 or Windows 8 won't automatically be updated through Windows Update until next Tuesday. Windows 10 will be automatically updated today.

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AMD getting the Patch despite not being vulnerable by mastagee · 2018-01-04 03:30 · Score: 4, Insightful

to Meltdown. . . which is the only thing PTI will help with. Seems like an unnecessary performance penalty to push on AMD users. Most likely down for simplicity/consistency on Microsoft's side for kernel code management.
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