Critical Flaw in HyperThreading Discovered in "Skylake" and "Kaby Lake" CPUs

[pansertjald]

Just a heads up for the Sky-Lake and Kaby-Lake people

critical flaw in hyperthreading discovered in skylake and kaby lake cpus

Debian project warns turn off hyperthreading with skylake and kaby lake

Seema like a Bios update is needed to fix it

[mojo6912]

Amazing how they are just finding this now. I wonder if I would turn off hyper-threading if I had a 7700k. That would be a painful switch to flip.

[pansertjald]

Amazing how they are just finding this now. I wonder if I would turn off hyper-threading if I had a 7700k. That would be a painful switch to flip.

I think it's a really low amount of cpu's that has this problem and thats why they haven't seen this problem before now

[Vertigo X]

I think it's a really low amount of cpu's that has this problem and thats why they haven't seen this problem before now

Someone was saying in they've already known about this problem for 6+ months now, hence why intel has already pushed microcode updates to OEM's to fix it.

The whole thing is pretty vague though.