Meltdown/Spectre - when will Ubuntu kernel patches be available?

Bug #1741285 reported by Andy
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Bug Description

Meltdown/Spectre - when will Ubuntu kernel patches be available?

So far, there are three known variants of the issue:

Variant 1: bounds check bypass (CVE-2017-5753)

Variant 2: branch target injection (CVE-2017-5715)

Variant 3: rogue data cache load (CVE-2017-5754)

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Emily Ratliff (emilyr) wrote :
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Seth Arnold (seth-arnold) wrote :

Hello, Meltdown mitigations are available in:

https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3522-3

and related USNs.

Spectre mitigations are in progress.

Thanks

information type: Private Security → Public Security
Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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