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Re: Description of the Intel CPU bugs
From: "Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:34:42 -0400
On 6/28/07, Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org> wrote:
On 2007-06-28 11:55-0400, Dude VanWinkle wrote: >On 6/28/07, Larry Seltzer <Larry () larryseltzer com> wrote: >> >> >>de Raadt makes reference to BIOS vendors providing fixes but there's a fix >>from Microsoft in a KB article at >>http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=936357. They call it a >>"microcode reliability update". >> >>Does this mean that microcode in these CPUs is actually field-upgradable? > > >Yes. Intel has released patches before for their CPU's. I remember >applying some patches for the Pentium III some years back. These patches in most cases would be work-arounds for stability/replacement functionality. They can be bypassed. This is a real patch, band-aid like. Or am I wrong?
No, I am pretty sure it was loaded by the BIOS at boot time, as stated by Valdis. I just didnt know that until today :-) -JP<D'oh!> _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- RE: Description of the Intel CPU bugs, (continued)
- RE: Description of the Intel CPU bugs Larry Seltzer (Jun 28)
- Re: Description of the Intel CPU bugs Matthew Murphy (Jun 28)
- Is this a hoax? Blanchard_Michael (Jun 28)
- Re: Is this a hoax? B.K. DeLong (Jun 28)
- Re: Is this a hoax? Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 28)
- RE: Is this a hoax? Blanchard_Michael (Jun 28)
- Re: Description of the Intel CPU bugs Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 28)
- Re: Description of the Intel CPU bugs Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Jun 30)
- Re: Description of the Intel CPU bugs Gadi Evron (Jun 28)
- Re: Description of the Intel CPU bugs Dude VanWinkle (Jun 28)
- Re: Description of the Intel CPU bugs Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 28)