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These Macs may be unable to be patched for future vulnerabilities similar to ‘ZombieLoad’

Thursday May 16, 2019. 06:44 PM , from Mac Daily News
“Several pre-2011 Macs could still be vulnerable to ‘ZombieLoad’-like security exploits, and Apple can’t fix that because Intel won’t release the necessary microcode updates,” William Gallagher reports for AppleInsider.
“While ‘ZombieLand’ itself will not affect these machines, because of the particular attack vector, Apple cannot fully patch against other such ‘speculative execution vulnerabilities’ without Intel’s help,” Gallagher reports.
“The ‘ZombieLand’ exploit affects all Intel processors since 2011 and Apple’s new support documentation lists only earlier Macs that could remain vulnerable to similar issues,” Gallagher reports. “These Macs are all ones that are either supported as vintage ones, as opposed to obsolete, or which are capable of running the latest macOS Mojave.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: Apple’s support document, published May 14, 2019, lists the following unsupported Mac models
Apple says, “These Mac models may receive security updates in macOS Mojave, High Sierra or Sierra, but are unable to support the fixes and mitigations due to a lack of microcode updates from Intel.”
• MacBook (13-inch, Late 2009)
• MacBook (13-inch, Mid 2010)
• MacBook Air (13-inch, Late 2010)
• MacBook Air (11-inch, Late 2010)
• MacBook Pro (17-inch, Mid 2010)
• MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010)
• MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010)
• iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2009)
• iMac (27-inch, Late 2009)
• iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2010)
• iMac (27-inch, Mid 2010)
• Mac mini (Mid 2010)
• Mac Pro (Late 2010)
Apple’s support document in full is here.
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