Hello Jan, the Xen hypervisor is community supported; we can't guarantee that it will be updated for this. The kernel patches to try to mitigate these issues are huge and very complicated -- if they are any indicator of the scale of the Xen patches, it may not be feasible to release updates for these issues.
intel-microcode has been released https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3531-1/ but enough people have reported regressions to Intel that we have not yet pushed this update to all users via additional package dependencies. People who already had the package installed should have it now, and we haven't heard many (if any) reports about trouble, but your results may differ. I have not heard any timelines for delivering updated microcode. I understand the AMD microcode update is coming shortly after AMD signs it. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/SpectreAndMeltdown for more details. Thanks ** Changed in: intel-microcode (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: xen (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1741282 Title: spectre/meltdown: Updates planned for *-microcode and xen-hpyervisor? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/intel-microcode/+bug/1741282/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
