Windows 10, 7 January security updates fix Intel, AMD & ARM CPU vulnerabilities

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Published onJanuary 4, 2018

published onJanuary 4, 2018

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Microsoft released a series ofWindows 10 updatesaimed at fixing the recently revealed security bug affecting Intel, AMD and ARM CPUs.

As a quick reminder, Google recentlyrevealed more informationabout two security vulnerabilities (Meltdown and Spectre) that allowed hackers to abuse CPU data cache timing so as to leak information, leading to virtual memory read vulnerabilities across local security boundaries.

Microsoft fixed this security issue by releasing the following updates:

All the updates have a generic description:

Security updates to Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Scripting Engine, Windows Graphics, Windows Kernel, Windows Datacenter Networking, Windows Virtualization and Kernel, and the Windows SMB Server.

Windows 7 is also affected by this security bug. Microsoft also released a security patch for this OS version and you can download it automatically via Windows Update, or get the standalone package from the Microsoft Update Catalog website.

Update issues

Before you hit the update button, you should know that all the patches listed above bring two issues of their own:

Microsoft advises you to contact your antivirus solution provider to confirm that their software is compatible and have set the following REGKEY on the machine:Key=”HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE”Subkey=”SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\QualityCompat”Value Name=”cadca5fe-87d3-4b96-b7fb-a231484277cc”Type=”REG_DWORD”Data=”0x00000000”

For the time being, users didn’t report any issues regarding the install process, so the download and install phase should go smoothly.

If you already installed the updates listed above and you encountered various bugs, describe the issues in the comments below.

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Update issues