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#1 2018-01-04 22:56
- crosscourt
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Patches for Meltdown and Spectre cpu flaws
Will the patches be available for Q4OS?
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#2 2018-01-05 07:50
- bin
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Re: Patches for Meltdown and Spectre cpu flaws
From my unattended-upgrades this morning
2018-01-05 06:44:48,034 INFO Packages that will be upgraded: linux-image-amd64
2018-01-05 06:44:48,035 INFO Writing dpkg log to '/var/log/unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades-dpkg.log'
2018-01-05 06:45:07,322 INFO All upgrades installed
Possibly already done!
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#3 2018-01-05 19:09
- q4osteam
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Re: Patches for Meltdown and Spectre cpu flaws
Debian has released a security update DSA-4078-1 addressing the bugs above, see https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4078
... This specific attack has been named Meltdown and is addressed in the Linux kernel for the Intel x86-64 architecture by a patch set named Kernel Page Table Isolation, enforcing a near complete separation of the kernel and userspace address maps and preventing the attack. This solution might have a performance impact, and can be disabled at boot time by passing pti=off to the kernel command line. ...
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#4 2018-01-06 01:13
- crosscourt
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Re: Patches for Meltdown and Spectre cpu flaws
Thanks bin as I hadnt seen them yet and didnt see anything initially on the Debian site nor here in the forums.
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