On Thursday, 4 January 2018 09:56:44 UTC+1, stephen...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 12:55:54 UTC+1, stephen...@gmail.com wrote: > > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/ > > > > http://pythonsweetness.tumblr.com/post/169166980422/the-mysterious-case-of-the-linux-page-table > > > > It seems as if Linux countermeasures will involve a significant rewrite > > aka. FUCKWIT. > > > > Is this perhaps why there is no final 4.0 release? > > There is a Xen fix available here, at least to the Meltdown manifestation to > the chip-makers SNAFU: > > https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-254.html > > This I assume will be in the 4.0 release version of Qubes. > > The best explanation of the field that I can find is here: > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/04/intel_amd_arm_cpu_vulnerability/ > > Oder?
Or at least the Meltdown (= SP3?) parts thereof. Against Spectre there is no known defence, which generally seems to break VM isolation against an attack. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/0e64448c-b159-40c0-8a19-5c6d6bde8864%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
