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



On Di, Feb 20, 2018 at 05:09:12 +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
CVE-2017-5753 is Spectre v1. There is no fix for Spectre v1 anywhere
yet, not even in Linux upstream.

Are you sure?

CVE-2017-5753 [bounds check bypass] aka 'Spectre Variant 1'
* Mitigated according to the /sys interface:  YES  (kernel confirms that the mitigation is active)
* Kernel has array_index_mask_nospec:  YES  (1 occurence(s) found of 64 bits array_index_mask_nospec())
* Checking count of LFENCE instructions following a jump in kernel:  NO  (only 3 jump-then-lfence instructions found, should be >= 30 (heuristic))
STATUS:  NOT VULNERABLE  (Mitigation: __user pointer sanitization)

Kernel is Linux 4.15.4 #1 SMP Sat Feb 17 23:19:56 CET 2018 x86_64, compiled myself with gcc 7.3 from testing.

According to spectre-meltdown-checker all three vulnerabilities are mitigated.

Shade and sweet water!

	Stephan

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