Microsoft Issues Update To Fix Flaw In Earlier Meltdown Patch

Security Researchers Disclosed Two Flaws - "Meltdown" And "Spectre" -- On January 3 That Affected Nearly Every Modern Computing Device Containing Chips From Intel, AMD And ARM Holdings.

Microsoft has released a new security patch to repair the previous security update released in January to combat the "Meltdown" V vulnerability in microchips from Intel and other chip makers. The "CVE-2018-1038" error was found in the first patch published before the Meltdown vulnerability to protect Windows 7x64 or Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 systems.

Security researchers uncovered two vulnerabilities on January 3 - "Meltdown" and "Specter" - which affected almost every modern computing device with chips from Intel, AMD and ARM Holdings. This update resolves an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Windows kernel in the 64-bit (x64) version of Windows This vulnerability is documented in CVE-2018-1038, "Microsoft said on its support page on Friday.

"Users must apply this update to fully protect against this vulnerability if their computers were updated in January 2018 or after that date by applying one of the following updates," the company added. After chip maker Intel had confirmed a possible security flaw in its chips, Microsoft released emergency updates for compatible versions of Windows in January.

After the bugs became known, major technology vendors such as Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Intel released security updates to protect users from possible data theft.