Oracle has released patches for the latest Spectre CPU flaws and a fix for the Lazy floating-point unit (FPU) state restore issue affecting Intel CPUs.

Oracle’s updates address the Spectre CPU flaws revealed in May, including CVE-2018-3640, also known as Spectre variant 3a, and CVE-2018-3639, Spectre variant 4.

The fix for Spectre version 4 needs both software and microcode updates, while fixing Spectre version 3a only requires microcode updates.

Oracle has released software-based patches for Oracle Linux and Oracle VM with Intel’s microcode updates for x86 hardware.

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