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Slackware64-14.2 ChangeLog (2018-07-27)
Fri Jul 27 21:01:22 UTC 2018
Packages
Upgraded
- patches/packages/linux-4.4.144/*
This kernel update enables additional mitigations for spectre_v2 (IBPB and
IBRS_FW). It also enables reporting on the Speculative Store Bypass
vulnerability (aka GPZ Variant 4) which affects Intel processors and must
be patched with a microcode update.
To see the status of CPU vulnerability mitigations on your system, look at
the files in: /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities
In addition, these kernels enable SMB2. Here's the complete list of kernel
config changes from the previous 4.4.132:
-X86_DEBUG_STATIC_CPU_HAS n
CIFS_SMB2 n → y
+CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_PERFORMANCE y
+CIFS_SMB311 n
+X86_FAST_FEATURE_TESTS y
Be sure to upgrade your initrd after upgrading the kernel packages.
If you use lilo to boot your machine, be sure lilo.conf points to the correct
kernel and initrd and run lilo as root to update the bootloader.
If you use elilo to boot your machine, you should run eliloconfig to copy the
kernel and initrd to the EFI System Partition.
For more information, see:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-3639
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