CentOS - Feb 2018 - Is CentOS Linux protected against the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws?

What are the patches that I can download and install to be protected
against the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities?

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Hi,

Depends on your centos release; 6 or 7 ? The most recent kernel are patched;
have a look at the release notes, e.g.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhsa-announce/2018-January/msg00080.html
<https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhsa-announce/2018-January/msg00080.html>

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0008
<https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0008>

Regards . G?tz

> Am 19.02.2018 um 13:18 schrieb Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
<tdteoenming at gmail.com>:
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> What are the patches that I can download and install to be protected
> against the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities?
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> Am 19.02.2018 um 13:52 schrieb G?tz Reinicke <goetz.reinicke at
filmakademie.de>:
> 
>> Am 19.02.2018 um 13:18 schrieb Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
<tdteoenming at gmail.com>:
>> 
>> What are the patches that I can download and install to be protected
>> against the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities?
>> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Depends on your centos release; 6 or 7 ? The most recent kernel are
patched; have a look at the release notes, e.g.
> 
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhsa-announce/2018-January/msg00080.html
<https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhsa-announce/2018-January/msg00080.html>
> 
> https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0008
<https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0008>
> 
> Regards . G?tz

Despite the fact that some mitigations are only effective in combination with
corresponding cpu microcode ...

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