Microsoft: Guidance to mitigate speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities

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Microsoft is aware of a new publicly disclosed class of vulnerabilities referred to as speculative execution side-channel attacks that affect many modern processors and operating systems including Intel, AMD, and ARM. Note: this issue will affect other systems such as Android, Chrome, iOS, MacOS, so we advise customers to seek out guidance from those vendors.

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Internet Explorer 10
Internet Explorer 11
Microsoft Edge
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 for 32-Bit Systems Service Pack 3 (QFE)
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 for x64-Based Systems Service Pack 3 (QFE)
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 4 (QFE)
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 for x64-Based Systems Service Pack 4 (QFE)
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 3
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 3 (CU)
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 4 (QFE)
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 3
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 3 (CU)
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 4 (QFE)
Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 2 for 32-bit Systems
Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 2 for 32-bit Systems (CU)
Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 2 for x64-based Systems
Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 2 for x64-based Systems (CU)
Microsoft SQL Server 2016 for x64-based Systems
Microsoft SQL Server 2016 for x64-based Systems (CU)
Microsoft SQL Server 2016 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1
Microsoft SQL Server 2016 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1 (CU)
Microsoft SQL Server 2017 for x64-based Systems
Microsoft SQL Server 2017 for x64-based Systems (CU)
Windows 10
Windows 7
Windows 8
Windows Server 2008
Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server version 1709 (Server Core Installation)