Security News > 2021 > February > Intel wireless driver updates fix Windows 10 blue screen issues
Intel has addressed Wi-Fi and Wireless Bluetooth drivers issues causing Windows 10 blue screen of death errors and Bluetooth devices to lose connection or stop working.
The new Intel Wireless drivers address Windows 10 stop errors and issues causing wireless adapters to fail to connect to 5GHz networks.
The full list of supported products and driver versions released by Intel to fix these issues is available in the Wi-Fi and the Wireless Bluetooth drivers' release notes.
Intel graphics driver vulnerabilities patched this month found in several Windows and Linux driver versions impact systems with Intel processor generations up to the 10th generation, codenamed Comet Lake.
Apple addressed arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities in Intel graphics drivers in early-February, and Microsoft released an emergency KB5001028 out-of-band update to fix a Windows 10 bug causing crashes when connecting to WPA3 Wi-Fi networks.
Last month, Microsoft also issued a new batch of Intel microcode updates for addressing issues impacting Windows 10 20H2, 2004, 1909, and older versions.
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