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Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9



Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24 January 2018 at 12:58, Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> wrote:

>> Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@gmail.com> wrote:

>> > The link within the above one:
>>> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2018-01/msg00148.html
>>> also has a link to the ftp download for the release candidate version of
>>> gcc 7.3 ie 7.3.0rc1 which does actually work for spectre and retpoline.

>> Debian Sid got gcc-7.3.0rc2 last night, the package is still named gcc-7
>> (7.2.0-20) though.


> Does that mean that if you upgrade to sid and installed gcc 7.2.0 you
> would actually get 7.3.0rc2 in practice?

Unless I interpret the changelog wrong: yes.

> If so then you would then go ahead and manually compile kernel 4.14.14
> and you would be straight.

Could be, yes.

Grüße,
Sven.

-- 
Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.


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