Backporting intel-microcode to 16.04 LTS for errata fix

Robie Basak robie.basak at ubuntu.com
Wed Jun 28 10:09:49 UTC 2017


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 I find the intel-microcode package in Ubuntu 16.04 is heavily outdated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 Hyperthreading is enabled.

See https://launchpad.net/bugs/1700373

Robie
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