On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 9:49 AM, Charles F Sullivan < charles.sulliva...@bc.edu> wrote: > The firmware update is there for your model: > http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/Drivers/DriversDetails?driverId=GYM2C
Yep. Downloaded and installed. I was on ver A9, latest is A21. After installation reboot, it re-detected all devices, and rebooted a second time. And my workstation, at least, seems fully covered ... Speculation control settings for CVE-2017-5715 [branch target injection] Hardware support for branch target injection mitigation is present: True Windows OS support for branch target injection mitigation is present: True Windows OS support for branch target injection mitigation is enabled: True Speculation control settings for CVE-2017-5754 [rogue data cache load] Hardware requires kernel VA shadowing: True Windows OS support for kernel VA shadow is present: True Windows OS support for kernel VA shadow is enabled: True Windows OS support for PCID performance optimization is enabled: False [not required for security] BTIHardwarePresent : True BTIWindowsSupportPresent : True BTIWindowsSupportEnabled : True BTIDisabledBySystemPolicy : False BTIDisabledByNoHardwareSupport : False KVAShadowRequired : True KVAShadowWindowsSupportPresent : True KVAShadowWindowsSupportEnabled : True KVAShadowPcidEnabled : False > Lucky you. I have a couple of older Optiplex models and they aren't on the > list, which I assume means that won't bother fixing those. Here's the entire > list: > http://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/sln308587/microprocessor-side-channel-attacks--cve-2017-5715--cve-2017-5753--cve-2017-5754---impact-on-dell-products?lang=en I don't usually deal with our workstation inventory, but it wouldn't surprise me if we had the same problem. I may have it on a database server, too, I still need to check.
