ESET's response to Meltdown and Spectre CPU vulnerabilities

[Aryeh Goretsky 378]

Hello,

ESET released Antivirus and Antispyware module update 1533.3 yesterday (January 3, 2017, 22:45 [GMT-8]) to all customers to ensure compatibility with Microsoft's updates to the Windows operating systems.  ESET is working alongside hardware and software vendors to mitigate the vulnerabilities posed by the Meltdown (CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5715) and Spectre (CVE-2017-5754) vulnerabilities. 

For additional information see:

• ESET Customer Advisory 2018-001: Spectre and Meltdown Vulnerabilities Discovered 
• ESET Newsroom: Meltdown & Spectre: How to protect yourself from these CPU security flaws
• ESET Support Alert 6644: ESET can stop malware that in the future may use Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities
• ESET's We Live Security blog: Meltdown and Spectre CPU Vulnerabilities: What You Need to Know

Please periodically check these articles as well as the ESET Security Forum for the additional information as it becomes available.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

Edited January 5, 2018 by Aryeh Goretsky
added We Live Security blog post

[Aryeh Goretsky 378]

Hello,

I am building a master list of hardware, software and networking companies affected by Meltdown and Spectre in the We Live Security blog post mentioned, above. 

Here is a link a direct link to the table:  https://www.welivesecurity.com/2018/01/05/meltdown-spectre-cpu-vulnerabilities/#vendors

Currently there are 62 150 vendors listed at the time of this posting editing.  There's a revision history at the bottom of the blog post with each day's additions.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

Edited January 12, 2018 by Aryeh Goretsky
embiggened the number of vendor advisories