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

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>]

On 2018-02-19 14:10:14 +0000, Brad Rogers 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:
> 
> cd [to some directory where you want to keep this]
> 
> wget meltdown.ovh -O spectre-meltdown-checker.sh

This is insecure. You should use the https URL directly, without
the redirection. Or the Debian package.

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