Meltdown and Spectre - What to do about it

[Brian Cluff]

The Intel microcode that you need to update to go along with the 
previous patches just hit.
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3531-1/

Brian Cluff

On 01/09/2018 05:54 PM, Brian Cluff wrote:
> I just got security notifications that the patches for meltdown for 
> Ubuntu just hit.
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/SpectreAndMeltdown
>
> Looks like it's time for all of us to update and slow down our own 
> systems... ARG!
>
> I also saw a security update for NVIDIA cards today that implied that 
> they were also effected by speculative execution bugs.
>
> Brian Cluff
>
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