Hello, I would like to protect my SuperMicro SYS-5018R-MR server from the newest Spectre variants 3a and 4 and hence did the following:
- updated SuperMicro BIOS to v3.1 from 06/06/2018 which explicitly addresses these 2 new variants based on their release notes - updated to the latest Debian 8.11 with the kernel 3.16.57-2 (2018-07-14) - added non-free/contrib repos and installed intel-microcode package - rebooted server Still after all that the spectre-meltdown-checker.sh script from meltdown.ovh still reports that my server is vulnearble to variants 3a and 4 and even to variant 3. Is it possible that this is related to me using Debian 8 with a Kernel 3.16? Another particularity from this server is that I am using Xen dom0 hypervisor (official Xen 4.4 packages from Debian 8 repo). So maybe this is because of Xen? Best regards, John
