Microsoft Releases Emergency Updates to Fix Meltdown and Spectre CPU Flaws

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Late last night, Microsoft issued out-of-band updates that address Meltdown and Spectre, two security flaws said to be affecting almost all CPUs released since 1995.

The Redmond-based OS maker was not planning on releasing the updates until next week, on Patch Tuesday, but was forced to roll out fixes after Google went public with details about the two vulnerabilities.

According to a Microsoft security advisories [1, 2], these are the Windows security updates that address the Meltdown and Spectre flaws for various Windows distributions.

The Microsoft updates are not all-out fixes. Some Windows PCs may require additional CPU firmware updates to mitigate Spectre attacks, but the Microsoft updates appear to fully-address the Meltdown flaw.

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