Comment 57 for bug 1364630

After poking around I learned that the cure is to install a correction to the Intel microcode. That in turn requires installing the"intel-microcode 2.20140913.1ubuntu2 source package, which is available from Launchpad. However, I haven't yet figured out how to actually do that. The Archlinux folks have some information on this subject. I didn't realize that Linux actually has the ability to install mods to the Intel microcode.

If any one else decides to follow through on this, please post your findings here.