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Author: Alessandro Selli
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Meltdown and linux kernel KPTI patch
On Mon, 8 Jan 2018 at 08:57:10 +0000
KatolaZ <katolaz@???> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 09:03:16PM +0100, viverna wrote:
>> il devuanizzato KatolaZ <katolaz@???> il 06-01-18 19:45:27 ha
>> scritto:
>> > On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 09:52:48PM +0100, viverna wrote:
>> > > When the KPTI patch will be in ascii and jessie?
>> > The patched kernel is already in ascii, if you have ascii-security
>> > enabled, and comes directly from stretch.
>> Wonderful, thanks for the {f,w}ork.
>> I don't know but is it possible for Devuan jessie to apply KPTI patch?
>>
>
> I guess the patch will be available soon from Debian. Just keep an eye
> on:
>
> https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-5754


For those who compile their own custom kernels, the patch is in releases
4.9.75 (stable branch) and 4.14.11 (current). It's the new configuration
item CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION.



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