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Intel Urges OEMs and End Users To Stop Deploying Spectre Patch As It May 'Introduce Higher Than Expected Reboots' (intel.com)

Posted by msmash on from the you-had-six-months dept.

Intel executive vice president Neil Shenoy said on Monday that the chip-maker has identified the source of some of the recent problems, so it is now recommended that users skip the available patches. From the blog post: We recommend that OEMs, cloud service providers, system manufacturers, software vendors and end users stop deployment of current versions, as they may introduce higher than expected reboots and other unpredictable system behavior.

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  1. Intel has known about the vuln for almost 7 months by Hadlock · · Score: 5, Informative

    Did they just roll out a patch in the last 30 days, or what's going on over there? This is the kind of instability one would expect from a hastily produced patch developed over a month by a small team. According to reports, Intel has known about the vuln for 7+ months. Were they not working on a patch this whole time? I would assume they were on iteration 5 or 6 of the patch by the time they broke the embargo a week early.

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  2. "Higher than usual" my ass by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Some famous person should finally bomb intel over their "higher than usual" BS. It's an insult to every single person who's reading this idiotic Slashdot news post. Non-broken "systems" don't have "unexpected reboots" ever. FFS.

  3. Re:Why does anyone even bother patching Spectre? by jbmartin6 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Multiple exploits are available, aren't they?

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  4. Re:He should have just said... by HiThere · · Score: 3, Informative

    Spectre is nearly everyone but the Raspberry Pi. Meltdown is just Intel. And Meltdown is the one that's (currently) really serious.

    I'm rather sure that Spectre will eventually be serious, so people need to be working HARD to solve it, but Meltdown is the currently critical one, and that's just Intel.

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