[AusNOG] [AUSNOG] MS patches Intel memory management

Sam McLeod ausnog at smcleod.net
Thu Jan 4 16:11:07 EST 2018


s/solution/mitigation

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> On 4 Jan 2018, at 4:03 pm, Scott Howard <scott at doc.net.au> wrote:
> 
> 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
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> On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 8:52 PM, Paul Wilkins <paulwilkins369 at gmail.com <mailto: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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