Recently at Intel they continued to get things complicated. If your condition is not good enough for AMD to push you through all the steps associated with surgical complications you have, now the risk of its processors and chipsets They never stop whining, to the point that many users are already skeptical of having to buy an Intel processor simply because they are not involved in all these issues.
The threat continues to plague Intel
Already last month we talked about the risk known as CVE-2019-0090 and its magnitude. This affects almost all chipsets (PCH) of the last five years not at software, but at hardware level. Specifically, affects the CSME system
This vulnerability has been exposed for nearly two months and Intel has not been able to fix it and, in fact, it was thought that there would be no solution. What Intel has done is publish a whitepaper when they say "action to take", promise firmware update which in thought will close the security gap.
This document confirms that all older chipsets are also affected, although they emphasize that this violation of the security code can never be used without a testing environment, i.e. there is no evidence that it was ever abused or that it could be done.
Worst of all, they are now April new vulnerabilities affecting Intel, some that affect servers but some become worse affect Intel NUC firmware (measured in size 7.8), at WLAN chip or product driver installation wizard.
Chipsets without harm and prospects for the future
Intel ensures that it never stops dealing with these risks, and the reality is that things should be mixed in with the time it takes. In any case, the company has guaranteed that the following chipsets released on the market will no longer have any of the risks we told you about, including:
- Cake (ICP-LP and ICP-N PCH)
- Cometlake (CMP-LP, CMP-H and CMP-V PCH)
- Tigerlake (TGP-LP and TGP-H PCH)
- Lakefield (LKF SoC)
- By Whitley (PCH LBG-R)
- Daville (CDF PCH)
- Jacobsville (CDF PCH)
- Eagle Stream (EBG PCH)
- Tatlow (TGP-H PCH)
The purpose of this company is to provide users processors, chipsets and standard systems as secure as possibleBut let us bear in mind that this risk arises from time to time without any limitation on the design of the trademark systems that would have been resolved had they been detected before they were introduced to the market.
