Microsoft releases small patches in all versions of Windows 10 to fix a vulnerability in Intel chips

We are getting closer to the release of the Windows 10 Fall Update. Microsoft continues to release its regular updates, in the case of the Patch Tuesday, as well as all builds within the Insider Program. And to all of them add a new update that is beginning to reach a limited number of users and a series of microcode updates for Intel processors.

In the first case, it is an update whose characteristics or the best ones that it provides are not yet known and which the company refers to as an update that arrives to facilitate the process of upgrade.Could it be to facilitate the jump to Windows 10 20H2? In the second case, these micro patches arrive to correct errors in the hardware of the equipment

Make upgrading easy

This is most likely, since it seems that this update, which for now is reaching a specific number of users, what it does is prepare the equipment both for the update of Fall as well as for those who don't already have the Windows 10 May 2020 Update, in order to install the Spring Update.

The update appears in Windows Update associated with patch KB4577588 and for now it is only reaching some users without being able to determine why of this selection.

For Intel processors

It should also be noted that this is not the only novelty, as Microsoft is launching small patches to solve a vulnerability discovered in Intel processorsAn update that will be downloaded and installed without user intervention through Windows Update if the system determines it is necessary.

Intel microcode updates are typically optional updates released to fix bugs and vulnerabilities found in hardware as well as bugs of Intel CPUs through a software patch. In this case, Intel can correct the problems discovered in its processors once they are released. This is the list of processors that benefit this time:

• Amber Lake Y
• Amber Lake-Y / 22
• Avoton
• Broadwell DE A1
• Broadwell DE V1
• Broadwell DE V2, V3
• Broadwell DE Y0
• Broadwell H 43e
• Broadwell Server E, EP, EP4S
• Broadwell Server EX
• Broadwell U
• Broadwell Y
• Broadwell Xeon E
• Waterfall Lake
• Cascade Lake Server
• Cascade Lake-W
• Coffee Lake H (6 + 2)
• Coffee Lake S (6 + 2)
• Coffee Lake U43e
• Coffee Lake H (8 + 2)
• Coffee Lake S (4 + 2)
• Coffee Lake S (4 + 2) x / KBP
• Coffee Lake S (4 + 2) Xeon E
• Coffee Lake S (4 + 2) Xeon E (U0)
• Coffee Lake S (6 + 2) x / KBP
• Coffee Lake S (6 + 2) Xeon E
• Coffee Lake S (6 + 2) Xeon E (U0)
• Coffee Lake S (8 + 2)
• Coffee Lake S (8 + 2) x / KBP
• Coffee Lake S (8 + 2) Xeon E (R0)
• Coffee Lake S / H (8 + 2)
• Comet Lake U42
• Comet Lake U62
• Haswell Desk
• Haswell H / Haswell Perf Halo
• Haswell Server EX
• Haswell U
• Haswell Xeon E3
• Kaby Lake G
• Kaby Lake H
• Kaby Lake Refresh U 4 + 2
• Kaby Lake S
• Kaby Lake U
• Kaby Lake U23e
• Kaby Lake X
• Kaby Lake Xeon E3
• Kaby Lake Y
• Skylake H
• Skylake S
• Skylake Server
• Skylake U
• Skylake U23e
• Skylake Xeon E3
• Skylake Y
• Valley View / Baytail
• Whisky Lake-U42

This update for computers with Intel processors that are affected will reach the different versions of Windows 10 with its corresponding patch that will change depending on the operating system we have installed. This is the numbering and its correspondence with the appropriate versions:

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• Intel
• Updates
• Patch
• Windows 10