RMM Firm Keeps List of Vendors and Gear Affected by Fatal Clock Signal Flaw
Identifies at least 20 vendors whose gear has faulty Intel chip that may lead to destroyed equipment
February 24, 2017
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At least 20 IT hardware vendors have been identified as making products that contain a faulty clock signal component that can fail in as little as 18 months, rendering equipment permanently inoperable.
That latest tally is compliments of Canadian remote monitoring and management (RMM) vendor Auvik, which is keeping a list of manufacturers and specific IT equipment potentially affected by the defect.
The faulty clock signal component is inside Intel Atom C2000 series processors – also known by the names Avoton and Rangeley.
Read more: Cisco Warns of Catastrophic Clock Signal Flaw
Once the chips fail, the hardware is unable to boot and becomes unrecoverable.
Cisco first made the problem public earlier this month.
Since then, they and many of the other affected manufacturers have mounted a frenetic effort to track down the hardware and effect repairs or replacements before failures occur.
As of today, Auvik is reporting the following manufacturers as users of the affected chipset:
1. Aaeon
2. ASRock
3. ASUS
4. Cisco/Meraki
5. Dell
6. Hewlett Packard Enterprise
7. Infortrend
8. Juniper
9. Lanner
10. NEC
11. Newisys
12. Netgate
13. NETGEAR
14. Quanta
15. Online/Scaleway
16. Seagate
17. Sophos
18. Supermicro
19. Synology
20. ZNYX Networks.
For a list of specific products involved, see the full Auvik blog.
This article originally appeared on MSPmentor.
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