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

[Beddingfield, Allen]

This is SUSE's equivalent page, where they still say they are shipping 
the microcode with the patch.

https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=7022512


On 1/18/18 10:17 AM, DJ-Pfulio via Ale wrote:
> 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. ;)
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