Intel releases patches to fix security vulnerabilities in its CPUs, GPUs, and gaming software

Editor's take: Intel's grand comeback will likely take a bit more time than initially expected. The CPU maker is clearly struggling with both hardware design and software development, and customers are left stranded in a sea of reliability issues, microcode updates, and security flaws as a consequence. Like many other IT vendors and software developers, Intel has long been releasing new security patches at the same time as Microsoft's Patch Tuesday. This month's series of updates is designed to close potentially dangerous bugs affecting both hardware and software products across several generations of CPU, GPU, and integrated GPU solutions. Starting with the software products, there was a single security vulnerability discovered in the Endurance Gaming Mode software, which could be exploited to gain higher access privileges on a system. The medium-rated flaw is fixed in the latest versions of the real-time monitoring application for laptops based on Intel chips. The largest batch of ... Read full article.