> On 5 Jan 2018, at 5.35, Jack Downes <[email protected]> wrote: > > 1) Is SmartOS even affected by Meltdown on Intel cores or Spectre on AMD > Cores?
SmartOS most likely is affected by this bug as are other operating systems running on X86. Joyent is currently investigating it and working on building mitigations but as you stated it’s not an easy task, others (namely Microsoft, Google; Windows, Linux) have had few months headstart into the patching. https://help.joyent.com/hc/en-us/articles/115015938847-Security-Advisory-Intel-Security-Findings > 2) If the problem does affect SmartOS, it does seem rather minor for servers > where few users are able to login and load software, correct? What I mean > is, > I know a fix will be tough, and unlikely to arrive soon, but ... if we keep > to > safe practices, we should be able to weather this storm, correct? Yes that’s most likely how it is, if you are running dedicated hosts and are able to limit login that’s great. Public Cloud obviously has to share physical hosts. There’s mail thread on illumos-developer mailing list: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/developer/T094b73b56163ea43 -- -Jussi Sallinen +358 40 700 7600 [email protected] https://jus.si/ ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
