Re: Is Debian Linux protected against the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws?

[Michael Lange]

On Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:27:23 +0000
Michael Fothergill <michael.fotherg...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> ​Sure enough, looking at the spectre meltdown checker on the kernel I am
> using in gentoo
> shows the ​
> 
> ​retpoline is enabled and that the vulnerability status is "not
> vulnerable".
> 
> ​It's not recent enough a kernel to address the spectre variant 1
> problem as far as I am aware.
> 
> Oh well...

Ha! Then it seems like for once debian is one step ahead :))

scnr

Michael

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