Intel's telling some customers to avoid its fix for the Spectre and Meltdown attacks

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Intel's telling some customers to avoid its fix for the Spectre and Meltdown attacks — because of a big bug



Intel is quietly telling some of its big customers to "delay" installing a fix it issued that was intended to address a major security vulnerability that became public last week, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The giant chipmaker is giving that advice because the recently issued software update can cause its latest processors to reboot when they're not supposed to, something the company acknowledged in a statement on Thursday.

"We have received reports from a few customers of higher system reboots after applying firmware updates," Navin Shenoy, executive vice president and general manager of Intel's data center group, said in the statement. "We are working quickly with these customers to understand, diagnose, and address this reboot issue."

Notably, Intel didn't give the same advice to consumers as it's giving to its big customers.

"End-users should continue to apply updates recommended by their system and operating system providers," Shenoy said in the statement. - Business Insider