[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-18:03.speculative_execution

[Mike Tancsa]

On 3/14/2018 11:58 AM, Gordon Tetlow wrote:
> The Special Note in the advisory discusses this:

Sorry about that, my old person eyes missed over that section twice
somehow  :(

	---Mike

> 
> Special Note:   Speculative execution vulnerability mitigation is a work
>                 in progress.  This advisory addresses the most significant
>                 issues for FreeBSD 11.1 on amd64 CPUs.  We expect to update
>                 this advisory to include 10.x for amd64 CPUs.  Future
> FreeBSD
>                 releases will address this issue on i386 and other CPUs.
>                 freebsd-update will include changes on i386 as part of this
>                 update due to common code changes shared between amd64 and
>                 i386, however it contains no functional changes for i386 (in
>                 particular, it does not mitigate the issue on i386).
> 
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 7:06 AM, Mike Tancsa <mike at sentex.net
> <mailto:mike at sentex.net>> wrote:
> 
>     On 3/14/2018 12:29 AM, FreeBSD Security Advisories wrote:
>     > Affects:        All supported versions of FreeBSD.
>     > Corrected:      2018-02-17 18:00:01 UTC (stable/11, 11.1-STABLE)
>     >                 2018-03-14 04:00:00 UTC (releng/11.1, 11.1-RELEASE-p8)
> 
>     Hi,
>             Are these corrections just AMD64 ? Or does it fix it on i386
>     as well ?
> 
>             ---Mike
> 


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