[AusNOG] [AUSNOG] MS patches Intel memory management

Scott Howard scott at doc.net.au
Thu Jan 4 16:03:34 EST 2018


The patches (which exist or will soon exist for all OSes) are only part of
the solution.

You also need to be looking for BIOS updates from your server/PC vendors to
get the full fixes.  Some of these have already been released, others are
on the way.

  Scott



On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 8:52 PM, Paul Wilkins <paulwilkins369 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Fix for security bug in Intel CPUs will be released patch Tuesday, and
> predictions are of a 5 - 30% performance hit.
>
> This is a problem in cloud, but I'm sure it will all be good on the day :)
>
> Kind regards
>
> Paul Wilkins
>
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