Intel / AMD CPU Microcode Updates Required For Security

[Ben Woods]

On Mon, 29 May 2017 at 7:35 am, RW via freebsd-questions <
freebsd-questions at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 28 May 2017 17:53:01 -0400
> grarpamp wrote:
>
> > Blobs that fix exploitable things may be slightly better than blobs.
> > Awareness should be raised, and updates applied to systems.
> >
> > # sysutils/devcpu-data New Microcode Released for Intel / AMD
> > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219268
>
> Is there a standard way to run cpucontrol? There doesn't seem to be an
> rc.d script.


There is an rc script installed with this port:

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/sysutils/devcpu-data/files/microcode_update.in?view=markup

Regards,
Ben

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