Η Intel μόλις κυκλοφόρησε μερικές επιδιορθώσεις για την ευπάθεια Specter. Η εταιρεία διέθεσε patches για περισσότερους επεξεργαστές, except from the Skylake chipsets it released earlier this month.
The new updates are for the CPU: Skylake-X, Kaby Lake, and Coffee Lake CPUs, as well as some chips for data centers such as Intel Xeon Scalable and Intel Xeon D.
The company reports that it continues to collaborate with other companies to include them in the next firmware updates.
"We have released microcode updates for our customers and partners on the Kaby Lake and Coffee Lake platforms, as well as the additional Skylake platforms. New microcode is available in most cases via OEM firmware updates. We continue to encourage people to keep their systems up to date," Intel said.
Intel has released security updates for the Meltdown and a variant of the Specter in January and device makers included them in the upgrade of their firmware released the same month after the two vulnerabilities were made public.
However, the company discovered that the Specter Variant 2 fixes were causing unexpected reboots on its processors and eventually decided to pull the updates until it discovered and fixed the problem.
Early in February, Intel finally released updated patches for Specter Variant 2, but only Skylake chipsets.
Let's say the company has currently accepts 32's mass claims, about the Meltdown and Specter vulnerabilities fiasco, but also the way it handled the information for its own benefit when its shares were listed on the stock exchange…