HP announced today it was stopping the deployment of BIOS updates containing Meltdown and Spectre patches and reissuing older BIOS versions.
HP's announcement comes after Intel issued an update to its Meltdown and Spectre advisory yesterday, Monday, January 22.
The CPU maker said it finished investigating previous reports of increased system reboot rates and found problems with the CPU microcode (firmware) updates that tried to mitigate the Spectre Variant 2 bug (CVE-2017-5715).
Because of this buggy code, Intel urged OEM vendors to stop the distribution of current CPU microcode updates and promised to reissue updates that include only patches for Meltdown and Spectre Variant 1 (CVE-2017-5753), but not the part with the known buggy Spectre Variant 2 code.
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