{"id":5216,"date":"2018-03-18T13:24:40","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T12:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=5216"},"modified":"2020-12-08T23:47:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T22:47:03","slug":"spectre-v2-update-march-2018-for-surface-pro-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2018\/03\/18\/spectre-v2-update-march-2018-for-surface-pro-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Spectre v2 update March 2018 for Surface Pro (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180729113450\/https:\/\/v47.imgup.net\/Surface218b.jpg\" width=\"71\" align=\"left\" height=\"52\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/18\/mrz-2018-update-spectre-v2-fr-surface-pro-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">German<\/a>]Microsoft released a new firmware update for its Surface Pro (2017). This should solve various problems and also mitigate the Spectre v2 attack vulnerability.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The patch will be distributed via Windows Update (according to <a href=\"https:\/\/mspoweruser.com\/microsoft-releases-march-2018-update-for-the-surface-pro-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MS Power User<\/a>). The firmware update is available for Surface Pro (2017), including the LTE version. It consists of the following packages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Surface System Aggregator Firmware \u2013 Firmware -234.2110.770.0 resolves potential security vulnerabilities, including Microsoft security advisory 180002.\n<li>Surface System Aggregator Firmware \u2013 Firmware -234.2110.1.0 improves battery reliability.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Installing this update requires <em>Surface System Aggregator Firmware v233.2102.1.0 <\/em>already installed. The changelog for the Surface Pro (2017) w\/o LTE says: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Surface UEFI \u2013 Firmware \u2013 233.2110.770.0 resolves potential security vulnerabilities, including Microsoft security advisory 180002.\n<li>Surface System Aggregator Firmware \u2013 Firmware \u2013 233.2111.256.0 improves battery reliability.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition to optimizing battery life, the security problem ADV180002 (speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities, i.e. Spectre v2) on Microsoft Edge should also have been mitigated. The Firmware update is detailled at <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/4037238\/surface-surface-pro-update-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this Microsoft page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]Microsoft released a new firmware update for its Surface Pro (2017). This should solve various problems and also mitigate the Spectre v2 attack vulnerability.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[448,580,22],"tags":[68,1122,195],"class_list":["post-5216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devices","category-security","category-update","tag-firmware","tag-surface-pro-2017","tag-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}