If your device uses one of the above processors, the associated Intel Microcode update will be offered via Windows Update. This Intel microcode release adds four additional CPU families that will receive the latest fixes from Intel. Intel® Running Average Power Limit (RAPL) Interface The additional vulnerabilities fixed as part of this release are: CVE-2020-8695 Today, Microsoft released new Intel Microcode updates to fix the latest vulnerabilities, including Platypus, in Intel CPUs. Windows 10 Intel microcode updates released The researchers showed that they could use the RAPL interface to monitor power consumption and deduce what instructions were being performed by a CPU, allowing them to steal sensitive data from memory.Īs a demonstration, the researchers released a video that illustrates how they can use the Platypus attack to steal an AES-NI key from protected Intel SGX enclaves. These vulnerabilities reside in Intel's Running Average Power Limit (RAPL) interface, allowing users to monitor and manage the power consumption of supported CPUs and DRAM memory. Today, an international group of researchers from Graz University of Technology, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, and the University of Birmingham disclosed new Intel CPU side-channel vulnerabilities called Platypus.
When Intel finds bugs in their CPUs, they release microcode updates that allow operating systems to patch the behavior of the CPU to fix, or at least mitigate, the bug.
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