Intel on Tuesday plans to release 11 security advisories, including a microcode firmware update to patch a vulnerability in its Software Guard Extensions (SGX) on recent Core microprocessors that allows a privileged attacker to corrupt SGX enclave computations. The SGX flaw has been dubbed Plundervolt by the computer scientists who found it – Kit Murdock, David Oswald, and Flavio Garcia from the UK’s University of Birmingham, Daniel Gruss from Austria’s Graz University of Technology, and Jo Van Bulckand and Frank Piessens from Belgium’s KU Leuven.

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