Canonical Releases Ubuntu Updates to Mitigate New MDS Security Vulnerabilities

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Canonical releases ubuntu updates to mitigate new mds security vulnerabilitiesCanonical has released today new updates for all of its supported Ubuntu Linux operating system series to mitigate the recently disclosed Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) security vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs.

Four new security vulnerabilities affecting Intel microprocessor have been publicly disclosed earlier, and Intel already released updated microcode firmware to mitigate them, but in the case of Linux-based operating system these flaws cannot be addressed only by updating the CPU firmware, but also by installing new Linux kernel versions and QEMU patches.

The vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-121… (read more)

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