Slackware-14.0 ChangeLog (2018-01-15)
Mon Jan 15 23:13:01 UTC 2018
Packages
Upgraded
- patches/packages/linux-3.2.98/*
This kernel includes mitigations for the Spectre (variant 2) and Meltdown
speculative side channel attacks.
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.
For more information, see:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5715
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5754
(* Security fix *)