Re: Is Debian Linux protected against the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws?
On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 21:00:08 +0300
Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 05:24:18PM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> > On 19 February 2018 at 17:03, Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 04:40:19PM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> > > > I had thought up to now that e.g. kernel 4.15.4-1 was new enough
> > > > that if you compiled it with gcc 7.3 then the spectre fix would
> > > > then work.
> > >
> > > Not unless you apply the retpoline patch to the gcc.
> > >
> > > For instance, just today said patch was applied to the Debian stable
> > > version of gcc, gcc-4.9:
> > >
> > > https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4117
I believe gcc-4.9 is "oldstable" (Jessie).
Regards
Michael
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