On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 21:13:42 +0800 Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming <tdteoenm...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Turritopsis, >What are the patches that I can download and install to be protected >against the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities? First, you might want to check whether your system is vulnerable. Mr. Meowski, on a local LUG ML pointed out this; If anyone wants to check their (linux) system specifically for the current state of spectre+meltdown mitigation on a given machine then have a look here: https://github.com/speed47/spectre-meltdown-checker Really simple instructions are as follows: cd [to some directory where you want to keep this] wget meltdown.ovh -O spectre-meltdown-checker.sh cat spectre-meltdown-checker.sh chmod +x spectre-meltdown-checker.sh sudo ./spectre-meltdown-checker.sh -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad never immediately apparent" You're not so safe in the safety of your room Nasty - The Damned
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