On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 3:43 PM, Robin Geuze wrote: > I was wondering, are the debian maintainers planning on backporting the > -mindirect-branch=thunk support introduced in GCC 7.3 and 8.1 to the > compilers available on Jessie and Stretch? While this is not necessarily a > security fix for the compiler it does provide that fix to at least kernels > compiled using it.
This sounds like a question for the Debian security team: https://www.debian.org/security/faq#contact That said, I believe they are testing these CPU security issue mitigations. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
