How to detect and mitigate the Intel escalation of privilege vulnerability on a Linux system (CVE-2017-5689)?

According to the Intel security-center post dated May 1, 2017, there is a critical vulnerability on Intel processors which could allow an attacker to gain privilege (escalation of privilege) using AMT, ISM and SBT. Because the AMT has direct access to the computer’s network hardware, this hardware vulnerability will allow an attacker to access any system. >There is an escalation of privilege vulnerability in Intel® Active Management Technology (AMT), Intel® Standard Manageability (ISM), and Intel® Small Business Technology versions firmware versions 6.x, 7.x, 8.x 9.x, 10.x, 11.0, 11.5, and 11.6 that can allow an unprivileged attacker to gain control of the manageability features provided by these products. This vulnerability does not exist on Intel-based consumer PCs. Intel have released a detection tool available for Windows 7 and 10. I am using information from dmidecode -t 4 and by searching on the Intel website I found that my processor uses Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT) 8.0. >Affected products: > >The issue has been observed in Intel manageability firmware versions 6.x, 7.x, 8.x 9.x, 10.x, 11.0, 11.5, and 11.6 for Intel® Active Management Technology, Intel® Small Business Technology, and Intel® Standard Manageability. Versions before 6 or after 11.6 are not impacted. The description: >An unprivileged local attacker could provision manageability features gaining unprivileged network or local system privileges on Intel manageability SKUs: Intel® Active Management Technology (AMT), Intel® Standard Manageability (ISM), and Intel® Small Business Technology (SBT) How can I easily detect and mitigate the Intel escalation of privilege vulnerability on a Linux system?