Re: Re: Is Debian Linux protected against the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws?
Hi.
On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 01:14:16PM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> 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
So it seems. New kernel came today with the usual 'apt update && apt
upgrade' routine:
$ uname -r
4.9.0-6-amd64
$ grep bug /proc/cpuinfo
bugs : cpu_meltdown spectre_v1 spectre_v2
...
Reco
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