Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 i386 - meltdown and spectre

2018-03-13 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 03/09/2018 12:46 PM, Peter Wood wrote: > Hi Johnny, > > Thank you for your reply. > > It seems to me that my message may have came around as offensive but that > was not my intend. I have basic understanding how things work and when I > said CentOS I actually meant Red Hat and all its derivati

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 i386 - meltdown and spectre

2018-03-12 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 1:15 PM, Peter Wood wrote: > Awesome. Thank you. > > Embarrassing but I can't find the Q&A page with this question. Can you > please post a link to it. > > Thanks, > > -- Peter Here it is: https://access.redhat.com/articles/3327321

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 i386 - meltdown and spectre

2018-03-12 Thread Peter Wood
Awesome. Thank you. Embarrassing but I can't find the Q&A page with this question. Can you please post a link to it. Thanks, -- Peter On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 11:16 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 10:46 AM, Peter Wood > wrote: > > > Anyway, I'm stuck with a few 32bit systems exp

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 i386 - meltdown and spectre

2018-03-09 Thread Phil Perry
On 09/03/18 19:16, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 10:46 AM, Peter Wood wrote: Anyway, I'm stuck with a few 32bit systems exposed to customers and I have to come up with an answer to their question about meltdown/spectre. At this point all I can say is that Red Hat hasn't patched 32bi

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 i386 - meltdown and spectre

2018-03-09 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 10:46 AM, Peter Wood wrote: > Anyway, I'm stuck with a few 32bit systems exposed to customers and I have > to come up with an answer to their question about meltdown/spectre. At this > point all I can say is that Red Hat hasn't patched 32bit systems but that > is hard to be

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 i386 - meltdown and spectre

2018-03-09 Thread Peter Wood
Hi Johnny, Thank you for your reply. It seems to me that my message may have came around as offensive but that was not my intend. I have basic understanding how things work and when I said CentOS I actually meant Red Hat and all its derivatives. I asked CentOS community because that's the communi

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 i386 - meltdown and spectre

2018-03-09 Thread Johnny Hughes
I have built all the source code releases from upstream for RHEL-6 regarding meltdown /spectre and released those into packages into the CentOS Linux 6.9 updates repository. As to whether or not either Arch (x86_64 or i386) is or is not vulnerable, the CentOS team does not test for or make claims

[CentOS] CentOS 6 i386 - meltdown and spectre

2018-03-06 Thread Peter Wood
I have a clean install, fully updated CentOS 6 32-bit. When I run the Red Hat detection script: https://access.redhat.com/sites/default/files/spectre-meltdown--a79614b.sh it finds that the system is vulnerable. Is this false positive or there is no patches for CentOS 6 32-bit systems? Thank you