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Intel 'Downfall': Severe flaw in billions of CPUs leaks passwords and much more (www.pcworld.com)
submitted 1 year ago by theunmentionable@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] ndsvw@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What does that even mean for me (has Debian running on a 2015 MacBook with Intel processor).

Will I get such a driver patch somehow?

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I just checked my package updates on my Debian server and there is a new update for the Intel-Microcodes available already.

[–] stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the AVX-2/AVX-512 instructions that have issues. In most cases unless you're running a server CPU (or extremely recent consumer CPU) you'll be fine.

Scary for HPC/AI? Yes. For most people? Not really.

[–] __dev@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

AVX-2 has been in pretty much every CPU since 2011. For AVX512 intel's been shipping that to consumers since Ice Lake 2019.