A month after details about the "Lazy FP State Restore" Intel CPU bug surfaced online, Microsoft has rolled out patches to fix this vulnerability at the operating system's level.
Microsoft rolled out the patches part of its regular Patch Tuesday security updates, which the company released this week,
on July 10.
Patches for this bug are now available for Windows 10, 8.1, 7, and Windows Server 2012 R2, 2012, 2008 R2, according to the table embedded at the bottom of this story.
Microsoft delivers on its promise
The Lazy FP State Restore vulnerability, also known as Lazy FPU, is a vulnerability that was disclosed in mid-June, and which affects all Intel Core-based microprocessors. For in-depth details about this bug, you can check out
our previous article, or Red Hat's technical analysis
here.
In a simple description, the bug affects the CPU code that handles floating point numbers, and when exploited, it can allow a malicious program to read data being used by other processes.
