On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 11:33:41PM +0000, jacksprat wrote: > I wanted to explore whether Devuan can provide a solution to the > Spectre/Meltdown fiasco. Is there a guide to what elements of Devuan > [jessie, ascii, ?] have been upgraded to address these issues? > > If I need to move to ascii to achieve this [I am on jessie], what do I need > to put in /etc/apt/sources.list so that apt-get can be perform the > upgrade? I have a spare computer where an ascii-based solution can be > tested . >
The only affected component is the kernel. Patch exist for jessie, ascii, and unstable, but only for Meltdown. AFAWN, there is no way to effectively patch Spectre. The patch for Meltdown comes directly from Debian: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-5754 and the updates are available from jessie-updates and from ascii-updates. So if you have updates enabled in your sources.list, you might already have got the patch. Just check that the version of your running kernel corresponds with that specified at the URL above. HTH KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
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