Fix for Meltdown and Spectre

Hi All

Greetings from Desktop Central technical support team.

Please use Desktop Central's Patch management to mitigate the vulnerability.

Here are the bulletin details from MS.

CVE-2017-5753 - Bounds check bypass
CVE-2017-5715 - Branch target injection
CVE-2017-5754 - Rogue data cache load

For more read..

https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/ADV180002

How to identify the Meltdown & Spectre using Desktop Central scan?

1. Sync the Patch DB & Scan all Systems.

2. To find and deploy missing Patches

Goto Patch Mgmt tab -> All Patches -> Missing Patches
Search keyword "Meltdown " / "Spectre" under Patch Description Field.
Select all patches and deploy from here.

3. To get a report on Installed Patches.

Goto Patch Mgmt -> All Patches -> Applicable Patches

Search keyword "Meltdown " / "Spectre" under Patch Description Field.

More about vulnerability..

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4072699/important-information-regarding-the-windows-security-updates-released

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/51021.mitgations-for-speculative-execution-side-channel-vulnerabilities-meltdown-spectre.aspx

Watch this Forum post for more updates..

Regards,

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R Romanus Prabhu

Technical Account Manager

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