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  1. Windows 7 Meltdown Patch Regression Exposed Kernel Memory After March Update

    Microsoft's emergency fixes for the Meltdown CPU vulnerability in early 2018 inadvertently introduced a far more dangerous weakness on 64‑bit installations of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 — a bug that made kernel page tables accessible to unprivileged code and allowed trivial, high‑speed...
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  2. Meltdown Spectre January 2018 Patch Causes AMD Boot Failures: Microsoft Pause and Recovery

    It’s never a good thing when a security patch meant to protect users instead leaves some machines unbootable — that’s exactly what happened after Microsoft’s January 2018 Windows updates designed to mitigate the Meltdown and Spectre speculative-execution vulnerabilities caused a subset of...
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