| Rich Freeman on 28 Mar 2018 07:43:58 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Meltdown's Big Brother |
On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 10:37 AM, jeff <jeffv@op.net> wrote: > So you patched the Redmond Menace's Win7-64 and 2008R2 machines against > Meltdown. Oops, now you have an even bigger problem: > > http://blog.frizk.net/2018/03/total-meltdown.html > > Today's question: is schadenfraude appropriate, or will the regular old head > shaking and a snort do? While this is a bit amusing, I'm sure this isn't the first security patch to introduce a security vulnerability. Clearly the patch needs a patch. Obviously anybody with vulnerable systems (just those versions of windows, apparently) should patch. However, this isn't quite the mess meltdown, and especially spectre, represent, as this is a specific bug in a specific piece of software and not an entirely new class of bugs that nobody ever thought to protect against. -- Rich ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug