旁道分析修復

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.

Summary of Affected ARM & Intel CPU Ranges.

ADLINK will publish the described microcode updates starting from early March, 2018. This includes latest BIOS revisions, schedule, and links to BIOS images and programming utilities for the affected products.

PLEASE NOTE that ADLINK is providing BIOS updates for all active production product. Customers that have an OEM specific BIOS or any type of BIOS customization will need to contact your local ADLINK support representative at tw@adlinktech.com and request an update. Please be prepared to provide a serial number for the product or the specific OEM part number to ensure that the BIOS supplied is correct. Customers with products that are no longer supported should contact their local ADLINK support representative and request a BIOS update.

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