SQL Server Patches for Meltdown and Spectre Attacks

Geschrieben von Database Magician am Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2018

'The Meltdown and Spectre attacks are newly announced ways of hacking CPUs. They affect both Windows and Linux. If you’re running under virtualization or cloud IaaS, any other running guest can try to leverage the attacks to compromise your unrelated guest.

Meltdown (yes, it has a logo)

These are a really big deal.

Cloud providers are forcing reboots as they patch things. Normally, that’d be the big punch line of this post – expect random reboots this week – but that only mentions a casual note here.

This morning, Microsoft published a KB article with SQL Server guidance. All versions of SQL Server are affected (other than SQL Server 2008 on Itanium, but who uses that?) Microsoft’s KB goes back to 2008, but there’s no reason to believe that 2005/2000 aren’t affected as well – they’re just no longer supported.'...

https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2018/01/sql-server-patches-meltdown-spectre-attacks/