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



On Monday 19 February 2018 13:31:46 Michael Lange wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 14:10:14 +0000
> Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> wrote:
>
> (...)
>
> > 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:
>
> (...)
>
> With debian it is even simpler:
>
> apt-get install spectre-meltdown-checker
not available for stretch on arm64, why?

> sudo spectre-meltdown-checker
>
> Regards
>
> Michael
>
>
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