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Date:      Wed, 09 Aug 2023 09:41:07 +0200
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
To:        Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de>, <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Downfall microcode update
Message-ID:  <189d93e0238.2805.fa4b1493b064008fe79f0f905b8e5741@Leidinger.net>
In-Reply-To: <E2A96C20-6F5D-42B0-A16D-BF70CBB6B99B@lassitu.de>
References:  <E2A96C20-6F5D-42B0-A16D-BF70CBB6B99B@lassitu.de>

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Hi,

The real microcode is in sysutils/devcpu-data-intel and updated much more 
recently.

You can load the microcode from loader, or from a rc.d service.

Bye,
Alexander.

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Send from a mobile device, please forgive brevity and misspellings.
Am 9. August 2023 09:33:06 schrieb Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de>:

> https://downfall.page/#faq
>
> Apparently, Intel will be issuing a microcode update for this. What is the 
> recommended way to automatically apply these during boot? I see that I have 
> cpupdate-g20180513_4 installed, which appears to be maintained despite the 
> scarily old date in the version number :-) 
> https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/cpupdate/
>
> The servers I'm concerned about are old enough to not receive BIOS updates 
> ever again.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Stefan
>
> --
> Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de>   Fon +49 151 14070811


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this. What is the recommended way to automatically apply these during boot?=
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tained despite the scarily old date in the version number :-) https://www.f=
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<div dir=3D"auto">Thanks,</div>
<div dir=3D"auto">Stefan</div>
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<div dir=3D"auto">Stefan Bethke &lt;stb@lassitu.de&gt; &nbsp; Fon +49 151 1=
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