Make sure you patch your Intel CPUs

techietraveller84 · Post by **techietraveller84** » Mon Oct 25, 2021 9:58 am

I just read that there is a new attack called SmashEX, that targets Intel CPUs. Just to be safe I would make sure you check for a patch if you have one. Here is the link to the article if you want to read more. https://cyware.com/news/smashex-attack- ... a-10eb1326

TheImplication · Post by **TheImplication** » Mon Oct 25, 2021 10:02 am

How do you patch a CPU? Is it a bios update? Never heard of such a thing being required.

Kammekor · Post by **Kammekor** » Mon Oct 25, 2021 12:34 pm

TheImplication wrote: ↑Mon Oct 25, 2021 10:02 am How do you patch a CPU? Is it a bios update? Never heard of such a thing being required.

You patch the Intel SGX SDK software.

siliconlife · Post by **siliconlife** » Mon Oct 25, 2021 12:50 pm

If you read the article, this was a proof-of-concept attack that researchers did just to see if they could break Intel SGX. No reason to be patching anything.

techietraveller84 · Post by **techietraveller84** » Tue Oct 26, 2021 9:55 am

Though, they found the vulnerability and released a patch for it.

RorschachRev · Post by **RorschachRev** » Wed Dec 15, 2021 9:13 am

Proof of concept today = worm next month. I am curious if the same attack works (with modification) against OSX, but OSX has the worst security of any OS so it wouldn't surprise me.

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