[ale] News: Red Hat slams into reverse on CPU fix for Spectre design blunder

[DJ-Pfulio]

Ubuntu:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/SpectreAndMeltdown
Bookmark that page. They have been updating it.

On 01/18/2018 11:12 AM, Beddingfield, Allen via Ale wrote:
> So, my question at this point:
> We haven't heard anything similar out of SUSE, and I haven't heard of
> anything in the Debian/Ubuntu world?  Are we to assume we are "good" if
> we have SUSE and Debian/Ubuntu systems patched up, and that it is just
> the RHEL world that can't get their act together?  It seems to me that
> we are likely to hear a "me too" out of the other vendors following Red
> Hat's announcement.  Thoughts?  I'm going to pose the same question to a
> SUSE heavy audience, see what I get, and report back . . .
> 
> Allen B.
> 
> On 1/18/18 7:23 AM, DJ-Pfulio via Ale wrote:
>> Red Hat slams into reverse on CPU fix for Spectre design blunder
>>
>> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/18/red_hat_spectre_firmware_update_woes/
>>
>>
>> Be careful out there.
>>
>> Anyone seen system instabilities from the different layers of patches?
>>
>> I've delayed patching the last few weeks to let others find most of the
>> issues first. ;)