Re: Backporting intel-microcode to 16.04 LTS for errata fix

2017-06-28 Thread Robie Basak
On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 05:51:15PM +0800, Daniel J Blueman wrote: > I find the intel-microcode package in Ubuntu 16.04 is heavily outdated > (3.20151106.1) leaving many Intel Skylake and Kaby Lake systems > vulnerable to incorrect program flow/state due to a processor errata > [1] when

Backporting intel-microcode to 16.04 LTS for errata fix

2017-06-28 Thread Daniel J Blueman
I find the intel-microcode package in Ubuntu 16.04 is heavily outdated (3.20151106.1) leaving many Intel Skylake and Kaby Lake systems vulnerable to incorrect program flow/state due to a processor errata [1] when Hyperthreading is enabled. This seems like sufficient rationale to backport the