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Ubuntu: Testing the official released kernel patches for Meltdown CVE-2017-5754


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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 and they are now available from the both the updates and security official Ubuntu repositories. In this article, I’ll step through patching an … Ubuntu: Testing the official released kernel patches for Meltdown CVE-2017-5754

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


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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

Ubuntu: Testing the KAISER kernel patch for Meltdown CVE-2017-5754


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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. A paper coming out of Graz University of Technology in Austria and written by Daniel Gruss, Moritz Lipp, Michael … Ubuntu: Testing the KAISER kernel patch for Meltdown CVE-2017-5754

Ubuntu: Determine system vulnerability for Meltdown CVE-2017-5754


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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. If you need to check your system, or perhaps have already patched your systems but want to … Ubuntu: Determine system vulnerability for Meltdown CVE-2017-5754

Ubuntu: Determine system vulnerability for Spectre CVE-2017-5715 CVE-2017-5753


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The Spectre vulnerability affects Intel, AMD, and ARM processor chips (each to various degrees) 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. If you need to check your system, or perhaps have already patched your systems … Ubuntu: Determine system vulnerability for Spectre CVE-2017-5715 CVE-2017-5753