Spectre and Meltdown

Wanted to share some articles from F5:


John does a good job explaining it:

https://devcentral.f5.com/articles/lightboard-lessons-explaining-the-spectre-and-meltdown-vulnerabilities-29335


KB article:

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K91229003



Thank you for sharing, this is very useful. A couple of weeks ago, posted this: https://community.indeni.com/discussions/topics/51220?auth_token=4660da71cc25ab4539028f40861f527e30fafd1e&page=1.


In the video, John mentioned that this issue is going to be around for a while, patches can help alleviate the problem. Vasilis is right, we shoud automate the detection of these vulnerabilities. I assume every equipment vendor will be putting out patches.


Thoughts?

On 1/22 Intel has asked everyone to hold off on patches.


https://newsroom.intel.com/news/root-cause-of-reboot-issue-identified-updated-guidance-for-customers-and-partners/