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

Mon Feb 19 13:39:20 UTC 2018
Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com>

> Am 19.02.2018 um 13:52 schrieb Götz Reinicke <goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de>:
> 
>> Am 19.02.2018 um 13:18 schrieb Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming <tdteoenming at gmail.com>:
>> 
>> What are the patches that I can download and install to be protected
>> against the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities?
>> 
> 
> 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


Despite the fact that some mitigations are only effective in combination with corresponding cpu microcode ...

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