Renowned Linux kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman has published an in-depth article on the status of the Meltdown and Spectre patches in the Linux kernel.
As you already know, two severe hardware bugs were unearthed last week as the worst chip flaws in the history of computing. Dubbed Meltdown and Spectre, these security vulnerabilities affect us all, and put billions of devices at risk of attacks by allowing attackers to steal your sensitive data that’s stored in kernel memory via locally installed apps or on the Web through malicious scripts.
Over the past couple of months, the Linux kernel developers worked hard to mitigate these nasty bugs, and they released several updates to the all supported Linux kernel series, which, by now, most GNU/Linux distributions have adopted. Greg Kroah-Hartman <a href="http://kroa… (read more)
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