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

[Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@gmail.com>]

On 23 February 2018 at 12:43, Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> wrote:

        Hi.

On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 06:46:05PM +0100, Julien Aubin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Do you have any clue on when the gcc fix for stretch is to be released ?
>
> Actually the retpoline-compliant kernel is ready, and gcc fixes for stretch
> seem to have already been implemented. So I dunno what is still blocking
> the release. :'(

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4120

​Can it be true?  A version of gcc that runs on stretch that will compile the latest fancy spectre fixes etc?

​Cheers

MF

 

Reco