On Wednesday, June 13, 2012 6:37:58 pm Greg Lewis wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 01:26:33PM +0000, FreeBSD Security Advisories wrote: > > IV. Workaround > > > > No workaround is available. > > > > However FreeBSD/amd64 running on AMD CPUs is not vulnerable to this > > particular problem. > > > > Systems with 64 bit capable CPUs, but running the 32 bit FreeBSD/i386 > > kernel are not vulnerable, nor are systems running on different > > processor architectures. > > I found these last two paragraphs a little confusing. Is the correct > interpretation that FreeBSD/amd64 running on Intel CPUs is the vulnerable > combination?
It is only know that AMD CPUs are safe. It is not known if non-AMD, non-Intel CPUs (e.g. the 64-bit capable VIA CPUs) are vulnerable. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
