[Security flaw discovered in Intel chips.]

On 1/20/2018 at 12:30 AM, limetech said:

 

This has been posted somewhere else on the forum.

It's showing that Meltdown vulnerability is in place.

It's showing Sectre vulnerabilities are still a work in process (on all distros btw, not just unRAID - as of date of this post).

6.4.1 release uses 4.14.14 kernel which has "retpoline" patches BUT not actually compiled in because it requires GCC 7.3 also not yet pubilc:

https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2018-01/msg00114.html

Full Spectre mitigation is going to take a while.  Some are saying full recompile of all user-space programs will be necessary.

This is my understanding anyway.

 

 

This post says this Wednesday GCC 7.3 final will be out.

 

https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2018-01/msg00124.html

 

 

[Security flaw discovered in Intel chips.]

New linux kernel out with more fixes.

 

4.14.14   Retpoline support built in to mitigate against the Spectre vulnerability.    Bring on 6.4.1