Re: Downfall microcode update

Stefan Bethke <[email protected]> Wed, 9 Aug 2023 10:27:38 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.os.freebsd.security.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Thank you!

> Am 09.08.2023 um 09:41 schrieb Alexander Leidinger <[email protected]>:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The real microcode is in sysutils/devcpu-data-intel and updated much more recently.
> 
> You can load the microcode from loader, or from a rc.d service.
> 
> Bye,
> Alexander.
> 
> --
> Send from a mobile device, please forgive brevity and misspellings.
> 
> Am 9. August 2023 09:33:06 schrieb Stefan Bethke <[email protected]>:
> 
>> https://downfall.page/#faq
>> 
>> Apparently, Intel will be issuing a microcode update for this. What is the recommended way to automatically apply these during boot? I see that I have cpupdate-g20180513_4 installed, which appears to be maintained despite the scarily old date in the version number :-) https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/cpupdate/
>> 
>> The servers I'm concerned about are old enough to not receive BIOS updates ever again.
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Stefan
>> 
>> --
>> Stefan Bethke <[email protected]>   Fon +49 151 14070811
> 

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