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Re:Escalation of Privilege Advisory by swiley on Monday May 01, 2017 @05:57PM (#14242083)
Doesn't intel provide firmware that can be downloaded from kernel.org? If this is included in that you can A) wait for it to be available there and recompile your kernel or B) wait for your distro maintainer to update your kernel.

If you load firmware from userspace you can probably just put it in the directory the firmware helper searches.

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Re:Escalation of Privilege Advisory by wtallis on Monday May 01, 2017 @08:19PM (#14242981)
You're possibly thinking of microcode for the x86 CPU.

This vulnerability is in code running on an entirely different processor that resides in the PCH on the motherboard and is initialized from the flash ROM on the motherboard long before any OS boots on the x86 CPU.

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