[CentOS] Is CentOS Linux protected against the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws?

Mon Feb 19 12:52:28 UTC 2018
Götz Reinicke <goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de>

Hi,

Depends on your centos release; 6 or 7 … The most recent kernel are patched; have a look at the release notes, e.g.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhsa-announce/2018-January/msg00080.html <https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhsa-announce/2018-January/msg00080.html>

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0008 <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0008>

Regards . Götz


> Am 19.02.2018 um 13:18 schrieb Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming <tdteoenming at gmail.com>:
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> What are the patches that I can download and install to be protected
> against the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities?
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