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The security of our products is critical for Intel, our customers and partners, and for me, personally. I apologize for any disruption this change in guidance may cause.

We continue to urge all customers to vigilantly maintain security best practice and for consumers to keep systems up-to-date.

We expect to share more details on timing later this week.

We ask that our industry partners focus efforts on testing early versions of the updated solution so we can accelerate its release.

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For the full list of platforms, see the Security Center site.

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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.Over the weekend, we began rolling out an early version of the updated solution to industry partners for testing, and we will make a final release available once that testing has been completed.īased on this, we are updating our guidance for customers and partners: We have now identified the root cause for Broadwell and Haswell platforms, and made good progress in developing a solution to address it.

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Use of 'CVE Identifiers (CVE IDs),' which are assigned by CVE Numbering Authorities (CNAs) from around the world, ensures confidence among parties when used to discuss or share information about a unique software vulnerability, provides a baseline for tool evaluation, and enables data exchange for cyber security automation.For those interested, or potentially affected through other products, here's what Intel had to say:Īs we start the week, I want to provide an update on the reboot issues we reported Jan. * Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE®) is a list of common identifiers for publicly known cyber security vulnerabilities. Ensure you update your browsers (like Firefox, Chrome, etc.) when and where applicable in addition to the updates provided from Apple. Spectre is unpatched, but very difficult to execute though it can be exploited in Javascript. Sierra and El Capitan are currently unpatched Meltdown has been patched in the most recent updates to macOS High Sierra. Sierra and El Capitan are not yet patched. This has been patched with macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 ONLY. Impact on the Speedometer and ARES-6 tests and an impact of less thanĬVE-2017-5754 is assigned to Meltdown. Indicates that the upcoming Safari mitigations will have no measurable As such, they will issue an update for Safari on macOS and iOS in the futureĪpple will release an update for Safari on macOS and iOS in the comingĭays to mitigate these exploit techniques. However, according to Apple, the vulnerability is 'very difficult to exploit' but can be done via Javascript. There are three CVE's assigned to these issues:ĬVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5715 are assigned to Spectre. Looking at the CVEs assigned to this particular vulnerability, * we can get listing of the issues that should be addressed by Apple when they decide to issue a security patch: However, with a little detective work, we can gain some insight. Security expert, noted a fix was present in a new 10.13.3 update to

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While Apple has yet to comment on the flaw, Alex Ionescu, Windows So, the comment in the linked article, should be viewed with (little) skepticism: About Apple security updatesįor our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, orĬonfirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and As posted in another, similar security related post, it's Apple's policy to not comment on security vulnerabilities until they are patched, and even when they do, they are often quite vague about it.

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