Critical SQL Server Patches for Meltdown and Spectre
Critical SQL Server Patches for Meltdown and Spectre There are two new possible viruses Meltdown and Spectre that can lead to dangerous situations on your SQL server by attacks. The following summary allows you to review and decide how to patch your systems. All SQL DBAs need to take action to make sure that they have backups as well as protecting the current systems. SQL Server Versions Affected This is a hardware issue, so every system is affected. SQL Server running on x86 and x64 for these versions: SQL Server 2008 SQL Server 2008R2 SQL Server 2012 SQL Server 2014 SQL Server 2016 SQL Server 2017 Azure SQL Database It is likely that SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 7, SQL Server 6.5 are all affected. No…