The embargo has expired so I'm making this public now.
** Description changed: Hi, Recently you would have been notified about CVE-2019-18660 via email to the linux-distros private mailing list. In short, it is a bug in the Spectre v2 class affecting powerpc. We have developed some backports for supported Ubuntu kernels, and tested them in our lab. I will attach the patches shortly. Most of them should end up being identical to the versions in linux-stable, but the ones for Bionic are slightly different due to it using a 4.15 kernel. Please get in touch with me or Michael Ellerman (powerpc maintainer) if you have any questions or if we can be of any assistance. - If I understand the SRU cycles correctly, we've missed the current one - due for release on 2 December, so the earliest these patches could land - in is the kernel nominally slated to be released ~23 December. Are you - planning to still release a kernel then, or are your cycles going to - change over the end of year period? - - (If it helps, we've got some automation set up so we're able to do the - regression testing of -proposed kernels with these patches quickly.) Kind regards, Daniel ** Information type changed from Private Security to Public Security -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1853142 Title: CVE-2019-18660: patches for Ubuntu To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1853142/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
