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Ubuntu: Testing the first candidate kernel patches for Meltdown CVE-2017-5754

The Meltdown vulnerability affects Intel and some ARM (but not AMD) processor chips and can allow unprivileged access to memory in the kernel and other processes. Canonical has committed to kernel patches to address this issue by January 9, 2018 and the first candidate kernel patches have now been released for Xenial and Trusty LTS. UPDATE Jan 11 Ubuntu: Testing the first candidate kernel patches for Meltdown CVE-2017-5754