In article <5267d400-4a5e-e27f-906d-d2d6e048d...@gmail.com>, Chuck Zmudzinski <frchu...@gmail.com> wrote: >Today news of critical vulnerabilities (for example, >http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-reveals-trio-of-speculative-execution-flaws-says-amd-affected/ > >) affecting Intel and Arm and maybe AMD processors hit the press. News >reports say all platforms using these chips, such as Linux, Microsoft, >and Apple are affected since the flaw is in hardware but the fix must be >made in the software operating system kernel. It has been reported that >Linux developers say the fix involves fundamental changes to the way the >Linux kernel handles virtual memory and they have been working on the >fix for a while (see for example, >http://www.zdnet.com/article/major-linux-redesign-in-the-works-to-deal-with-intel-chip-security-problem/ > >). I could not tell from NetBSD security documentation if NetBSD is >vulnerable to these flaws or not or if work has been done in NetBSD to >mitigate these security flaws in the hardware that NetBSD runs on. Can >anyone say if NetBSD is vulnerable?
Yes, NetBSD is vulnerable on the processors affected. christos
