Intel on Meltdown, Spectre patches Fix leads to higher reboots, stop deploying.
Intel’s solution for the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws just got a whole lot worse. The company which had started deploying patches for all of the processors impacted by these flaws, has now asked customers to stop using these as it can lead to high number of reboots and unexpected system behaviour. Meltdown as a flaw is believed to impact only Intel processors, while Spectre impacts nearly all modern processors and thus extends beyond the PC world.
Intel’s Navin Shenoy, who is executive vice president and general manager of the Data Center Group at Intel Corporation, wrote new blogpost on the company’s newsroom pointing out the reboot issues. The post says, “We recommend that OEMs, cloud service providers, system manufacturers, software vendors and end users stop deployment of current versions, as they may introduce higher than expected reboots and other unpredictable system behavior.” Intel had reported about the reboot issues on January 11 with regards to the Spectre and Meltdown patches.
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