OK. Thanks. This helps.

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From: Ryan Ratliff (rratliff) [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 9:11 AM
To: Lelio Fulgenzi <[email protected]>
Cc: voip puck <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Spectre and Meltdown remediation as relevant to Cisco 
systems

The only baremetal versions of those products that would require a patch are 
the ones that ran on Windows. Since we moved to linux root has been locked down 
and you can’t run custom code on the box, which is a requirement for 
exploitation of this vulnerability.

-Ryan

On Jan 9, 2018, at 9:58 PM, Lelio Fulgenzi 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:


I'm wondering if products like CUCM v9 and UCCx v9 will be investigated/patched 
for vulnerabilities? Especially since they're bare metal compatible.

If Linux is affected, then wouldn't these be as well?

We're in the process of migrating but it would be good to know.

Sent from my iPhone

On Jan 9, 2018, at 8:32 PM, Lelio Fulgenzi 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

To be honest, I'm a little worried about the rumoured slowdown the fixes are 
gonna have. Will this impact the supported status of certain CPUs in collab 
suite?

Sent from my iPhone

On Jan 9, 2018, at 9:47 AM, Lelio Fulgenzi 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Good question. I’m not sure of the impact either. I _suspect_ that because ESXi 
abstracts the CPU that the intel CPU bug would affect ESXi only, not the 
underlying applications. Because you can’t run the software on baremetal any 
longer, there shouldn’t be a need to update the voice applications.

I’m also guessing that CIMC would likely need some updates too.

But yes, interesting to see how this plays out.


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From: cisco-voip [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ben 
Amick
Sent: Monday, January 8, 2018 4:27 PM
To: voip puck <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: [cisco-voip] Spectre and Meltdown remediation as relevant to Cisco 
systems

So I haven’t had much time to look into this, but has anyone else compiled a 
list of or needs for remediation for cisco systems for the Spectre and Meltdown 
vulnerabilities?

I know the one only affects Intel and some ARM processors, whereas the other is 
more OS level, if I understand properly?

So being that all the cisco telephony products are on virtualized product now, 
I assume that we would go to VMWare for any patching relevant to those, but I 
would imagine that we would also need a security patch for the redhat/centos OS 
the Unified Communications products run on (and doubly so for those of us using 
old MCS physical chassis?)

It looks like routers and switches, as well as ASAs are all potentially 
vulnerable as well.

I’ve found the following articles on their website: 
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=56354 and 
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20180104-cpusidechannel
 that details the issues a bit, but it looks like Cisco hasn’t found anything 
yet nor delivered any patches?

Ben Amick
Unified Communications Analyst


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