Is Ubuntu Linux protected against the Meltdown and Spectre security flaws?

[Bret Busby]

On 02/03/2018, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Mar 2018 21:23:03 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>The old KAISER and now the KPTI Linux patch sets, as well as the
>>microcode, aka firmware, do not fix those issues, they "mitigate" the
>>vulnerabilities.
>
> I'm running an Ubuntu session right now.
>
> [weremouse at moonstudio ~]$ lsb_release -rc
>

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia

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 Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
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