Side-Channel Analysis Fix

Earlier this year, an industry-wide potential security issue was discovered that affects a wide variety of processors. The issue is a new side-channel analysis method developed by external researchers that gathers information by observing the physical behavior of certain processing techniques that are common to modern computing platforms, when operating as designed. Malicious code using this method and running locally on a normal operating platform could infer data values from memory.

Intel is currently updating the microcode for all impacted processors. In some cases, Intel is releasing updates to previously updated microcode. Note that complete protection for the side-channel analysis exploits also requires operating system updates. The operating system updates are being pushed out by the operating system vendors.

ADLINK is working to incorporate the Intel microcode into the BIOS for all impacted products. This process requires that we build, test, and release the updated BIOS for each product. In some cases this has been done multiple times, as Intel has released additional microcode updates. This is a very fluid process and can change as we receive updates from Intel.

TBU = To Be Updated
TBC = To Be Confirmed

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