How to Check If Your Linux PC Is Vulnerable to Meltdown & Spectre Security Flaws

How to Check If Your Linux PC Is Vulnerable to Meltdown & Spectre Security Flaws

These are the worse chip flaws in the history of computing

Canonical Says It'll Release New Ubuntu Kernels to Further Mitigate Spectre Bugs

Canonical Says It'll Release New Ubuntu Kernels to Further Mitigate Spectre Bugs

The new kernels will be available early next week

Intel's Microcode Update for Spectre Exploit Is Now Available in Ubuntu's Repos

Intel's Microcode Update for Spectre Exploit Is Now Available in Ubuntu's Repos

It's available for Ubuntu 17.10, 17.04, 16.04, and 14.04

openSUSE Tumbleweed Now Patched Against Meltdown/Spectre, Adopts LibreOffice 6.0

openSUSE Tumbleweed Now Patched Against Meltdown/Spectre, Adopts LibreOffice 6.0

Mozilla Firefox 57.0.4 and KDE Frameworks 5.41.0 landed

Canonical Fixes Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Regression Causing Boot Failure on Some PCs

Canonical Fixes Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Regression Causing Boot Failure on Some PCs

Users are urged to update their systems immediately

Debian Stretch and Jessie Get Kernel Patches to Mitigate Meltdown Security Flaw

Debian Stretch and Jessie Get Kernel Patches to Mitigate Meltdown Security Flaw

The patch is important and all users must update

  • Linux
  • By Marius Nestor
  • January 10th, 2018
Intel Releases Processor Microcode Patch for Linux OSes, Here's How to Update

Intel Releases Processor Microcode Patch for Linux OSes, Here's How to Update

Linux Processor Microcode Data File 20180108 is out now

Canonical Releases Ubuntu Kernel and Nvidia Updates to Fix Meltdown and Spectre <em>Updated</em>

Canonical Releases Ubuntu Kernel and Nvidia Updates to Fix Meltdown and Spectre Updated

Updates are available for all supported Ubuntu releases

  • Linux
  • By Marius Nestor
  • January 9th, 2018
Greg Kroah-Hartman on Meltdown and Spectre Bugs: Go Update Your Linux Kernel

Greg Kroah-Hartman on Meltdown and Spectre Bugs: Go Update Your Linux Kernel

Meltdown is fully patched, Spectre patches are still coming

Linux Mint Devs Respond to Meltdown and Spectre Security Vulnerabilities

Linux Mint Devs Respond to Meltdown and Spectre Security Vulnerabilities

Patches are coming soon to all supported releases

All Supported 4MLinux and TheSSS Releases Now Patched Against Meltdown & Spectre

All Supported 4MLinux and TheSSS Releases Now Patched Against Meltdown & Spectre

Users are urged to update their systems immediately

Apple Says Apple Watch and watchOS Are Not Affected by Meltdown and Spectre Bugs

Apple Says Apple Watch and watchOS Are Not Affected by Meltdown and Spectre Bugs

Apple Watch wearers shouldn't worry about the new exploits

  • Linux
  • By Marius Nestor
  • January 5th, 2018
All Raspberry Pi Devices Are Immune to the Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities

All Raspberry Pi Devices Are Immune to the Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities

None of the Raspberry Pi models are affected by these bugs

  • Linux
  • By Marius Nestor
  • January 5th, 2018
Purism Says It's Releasing Patches to Stop Meltdown Attacks in Its Linux Laptops

Purism Says It's Releasing Patches to Stop Meltdown Attacks in Its Linux Laptops

Will soon release patches against Spectre variants as well

CentOS Linux Receives Security Updates Against Meltdown and Spectre Exploits

CentOS Linux Receives Security Updates Against Meltdown and Spectre Exploits

Several packages need to be updated to patch the issues

Google Chrome to Get Meltdown and Spectre Patches on January 23

Google Chrome to Get Meltdown and Spectre Patches on January 23

A method to remain protect already exists though

Mozilla Firefox 57.0.4 Released with Meltdown and Spectre Patches

Mozilla Firefox 57.0.4 Released with Meltdown and Spectre Patches

New version of Mozilla’s browser now available for download

 
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