Public bug reported: NB: I am *not* directly affected by this bug.
Henrique emailed a warning to Debian devel today [1] on a potentially serious issue with (sky|kaby)lake processors. Excerpt: "This warning advisory is relevant for users of systems with the Intel processors code-named "Skylake" and "Kaby Lake". These are: the 6th and 7th generation Intel Core processors (desktop, embedded, mobile and HEDT), their related server processors (such as Xeon v5 and Xeon v6), as well as select Intel Pentium processor models. TL;DR: unfixed Skylake and Kaby Lake processors could, in some situations, dangerously misbehave when hyper-threading is enabled. Disable hyper-threading immediately in BIOS/UEFI to work around the problem. Read this advisory for instructions about an Intel-provided fix." It is probably a good idea to: (1) issue a warning to our users about this; (2) update intel-microcode on all our supported releases I leave the discussion on whether this can have security implications to others. [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/06/msg00308.html ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04 Package: intel-microcode 3.20161104.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-24.28-generic 4.10.15 Uname: Linux 4.10.0-24-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu4.1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity:Unity7 Date: Sun Jun 25 10:14:19 2017 InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-05-26 (30 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412) SourcePackage: intel-microcode UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Affects: intel-microcode (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug zesty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1700373 Title: Please update microcode to version 20170511 on all supported platforms To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/intel-microcode/+bug/1700373/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
