DragonFlyBSD Finishes Up Spectre Mitigation, Fix For Mysterious CVE-2018-8897

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DragonFlyBSD Finishes Up Spectre Mitigation, Fix For Mysterious CVE-2018-8897

08 May 2018, 01:36 PM

Phoronix: DragonFlyBSD Finishes Up Spectre Mitigation, Fix For Mysterious CVE-2018-8897

DragonFlyBSD lead developer Matthew Dillon has just pushed out DragonFly's Spectre mitigation code as well as fixing "CVE-2018-8897" which is what might be the recently rumored "Spectre-NG" vulnerabilities...

DragonFlyBSD Finishes Up Spectre Mitigation, Fix For Mysterious CVE-2018-8897 - Phoronix

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09 May 2018, 04:36 AM

If Intel CPUs are that broken users really deserve fixed replacements. With all the software workarounds and microcode quirks they will soon be slower than AMD's :-)

Last edited by rene; 09 May 2018, 07:29 AM.
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