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Re: Meltdown / Spectre


From: Mark H Weaver
Subject: Re: Meltdown / Spectre
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2018 15:15:29 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux)

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:

> The Spectre bugs have to be fixed per-application for now. As far as I
> know, we haven't made any related changes to packages besides
> linux-libre.
>
> Mozilla has released an update that is supposed to mitigate the
> vulnerability but I don't if they'll be porting it back to the extended
> support release that Icecat is based on.

I just backported the Spectre mitigation from Firefox 57.0.4 to IceCat,
and pushed it to master here:

  
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=c23243fccd4f73430ca06a862acd33c020c8ed17

I recommend that you upgrade your IceCat packages, and furthermore that
you install NoScript and avoid using Javascript except when needed.

      Mark



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