Microsoft and Intel cooperated to provide microcode updates for the CPU via Windows updates
Microsoft and Intel have teamed up to provide users with Intel CPU microcode updates to overcome the Specter v2 vulnerability through a Windows update package.
Meltdown and Specter (v1 and v2) are serious vulnerabilities to a large number of modern CPUs. With Meltdown and Spectre v1 vulnerabilities, Microsoft and other operating system vendors provided operating system updates. But still need to have software updates called microcode (CPU firmware) to install separately for each type of CPU.
Intel has released a series of early microcode updates and has a system restart error, so it was forced to recall them.
In the release of a second series of microcode updates to fix Specter v2, Intel in turn released the first upgrade for some Skylake CPUs, followed by Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake, and This week with the third wave for Broadwell and Haswell processors.
To download these updates, users must visit Intel's website, or wait for an OEM firmware update (PC / notebook sellers). And to solve this problem, Microsoft decided to help provide some microcode updates for Windows users.
The first microcode update is KB4090007 only available for Windows 10 version 1709 (Fall Creators Update) and Windows Server version 1709 (Server Core) and only for Intel Skylake CPU owners.
Microcode fixes for other Windows and processor versions will be provided later.
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