Canonical Releases New Ubuntu Kernel Updates to Patch Intel “MMIO Stale Data” Flaws

On Tuesday, June 14th, 2022, Intel disclosed a series of new hardware vulnerabilities discovered by various security researchers that affect some of its processors. The four vulnerabilities were marked as having a “medium” security impact.

The company released firmware updates to mitigate these potential flaws discovered in the Memory Mapped I/O (MMIO) method, which is used for performing I/O between the CPU and peripheral devices, and urged all hardware and software vendors to update their products.

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