[CentOS-devel] CentOS 6 patches for Spectre and Meltdown

Thu Jan 4 18:09:07 UTC 2018
Akshay Kumar <akshayk at gmail.com>

AU Is for older 6 releases 6.2, 6.3 etc that are EOL. 6 updates should be
rolling out soon.

https://twitter.com/CentOS/status/948943156195790849

On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 12:59 PM, Paul Graydon <paul.graydon at oracle.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I see from centos-announce that the patches for CentOS 7 have rolled
> out, do we have a rough ETA on the CentOS 6 patches?  From the looks of
> the security vulnerability mailing lists it looks like RedHat released
> the patches for 6 around the same time.
>
> I'll confess I'm a little rusty on the nomenclature RedHat uses, and the
> security advisory for 6 specifically references "Red Hat Enterprise
> Linux 6.6 Advanced Update Support and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Telco
> Extended Update Support."  I'm not entirely clear what "Advanced Update
> Support" means about the availability of patches.  Does that have any
> impact on the patches rolling out to CentOS?
>
> Paul
>
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