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spectre and Meltdown fixes - release dates for linux distros
Unfortunately the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities became Public too early. So now we are all keen on getting updates for our servers to work around the respective design issues in modern CPU's ASAP. Originally, the official anouncement was planned for Jan. 9, so we can expect that by then most OS's including most Linux Distributions will have a fix in their repos which can simply be installed by running whatever your regular update routine is. That's
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
in ubuntu and
yum update
in RedHat and CentOS distributions.
However, now that the news is out, every OS vendor tries to be as fast as possible in pushing out patches, so possibly fixes will be released earlier. here is a list of links with information about updates available from linux distributions i care about:
- Ubuntu (still TBD)
- CentOS (started syncing to mirrors on Jan 4) kernel-3.10.0-693.11.6.el7.x86_64.rpm and related packages fix the bug
- RedHat Enterprise Linux RHEL 7 (released 3.Jan)
for further information read those pages or check out the meltdown webpage link section