Intel Publishes "20231114" CPU Microcode For New Security Advisory & Functional Issues

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Publishes "20231114" CPU Microcode For New Security Advisory & Functional Issues

Intel has released new CPU microcode this morning for mitigating a new CPU security vulnerability (INTEL-SA-00950). This new microcode drop also fixes various functional issues on recent generations of Intel processors...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-20231114-Microcode

[willmore]

Is it this?

[stormcrow]

Is it this?

Yeah. That's the one.

While the possibility exists of code execution, the likelihood according to Google's engineers of that happening is very remote so the CVS score is somewhat deceptive... again. The most likely outcome is annoying DoS crashes. It's only a narrow range of models too, although the Xeon 3rd gen being vulnerable means a large number of still in service servers and workstations are likely affected.