[cfarm-users] OT: Spectre and Meltdown cpu bugs

Jeffrey Walton noloader at gmail.com
Sat Jan 6 03:21:23 CET 2018


Hi Everyone,

It looks like PoCs are starting to be released for the CPU bugs. Or
there's a PoC in the wild for ARM processors. The farm may want to
accelerate deployment of the fixes if it has not done so.

Early reports:
* https://amp.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/7nl8r0/intel_bug_incoming/
* https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/

Latest news:
* https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/4/16848976/how-to-protect-windows-pc-meltdown-security-flaw

Jeff


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