Re: [wlug] Dell and HP Advise All Their Customers To Not Install Spectre BIOS Updates

On Thu, 25 Jan 2018 10:20:05 +1300, Peter Reutemann wrote:

'The Spectre and Meltdown mess continues with Dell now recommending their customers to not install the BIOS updates that are supposed to resolve the Spectre (Variant 2) vulnerabilities.'

Apparently Intel told the vendors about the vulnerabilities (under nondisclosure, of course) on November 29 <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/25/intel_spectre_disclosed_flaws_november/>: That date is about six months after the chip maker was warned in June 2017 about the blunders in its blueprints by researchers at Google and university academics. So it gave itself a six-month head-start. Yet nobody, it seems, has been able to come up with a BIOS update that works yet.