[DISCUSSION] Meltdown and Spectre

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    #105 Mikorist, Jan 10, 2018
    Yep. This is not recommended on production server.

    But at home I really not care . Have multi-booting . Windows10 , MacOS, Ubuntu Studio, CentOS and Puppy Linux at same machine :p
     
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    #106 taviruni, Jan 10, 2018
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    Or in other words VMware program did work (as I confirmed), but in file "microcode-20180108.tgz" Intel Microcode Data File for my i3 3225 was not patched for this vulnerabilities. So this means Intel is launching this file "microcode-20180108.tgz" to public and not all Microcode Data have been updated to fix this vulnerabilities and no mention to this on download page.
    INTEL HAS LOST ALL CREDIBILITY FOR ME.
     
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    #108 Mikorist, Jan 10, 2018
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    You can (not) imagine what will happen when they start to compromise ALL Amazon AWS servers with Spectre.

    Shared cloud's kernel and memory is the biggest problem here.

    I already see the lawsuit of Amazon to Intel. And Google too...And everyone else.
     
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    #113 Yen, Jan 10, 2018
    Which one was your previous kernel version which has still worked?
     
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    #114 asabater, Jan 10, 2018
    4.4.0-104

    i'm at it with shift boot at this moment
     
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    #116 Yen, Jan 10, 2018
    It seems 108 is a 'bad' one...
    Well when updating kernel one can encounter issues. 109 seems to have fixed that...
    There are still works on Kernel Address Isolation to have Side-channels Efficiently Removed (KAISER) which is a function to prevent exploits...

    I am on the 4.4 tree as well but have not tried any update yet...I actually wanted to go for the 4.4.110....

    ATM I have no patch running....since the read rate of meltdown is guessed like 500 KB/second and through spectre far less I do just reboot my system after I did sensitive transactions just like banking..

    In the meantime I try to stay informed until I can notice a reasonable concept and a reasonable combination of measures which do really make sense.
     
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    #117 asabater, Jan 10, 2018
    many thanks Yen, i'm very happy with you here a lot of years
     
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