Canonical Will Soon Patch all Supported Ubuntu Releases Against Meltdown/Spectre

After Red Hat and SUSE, now it's Canonical's turn to respond to the Meltdown and Spectre hardware bugs that affect billions of hardware device.

According to Canonical's Dustin Kirkland, Ubuntu Security Team worked hard over the past two months to test and integrate what they called one of the most complex sets of patches into the kernel packages used by all supported Ubuntu Linux releases, including Ubuntu 12.04 ESM (Extended Security Maintenance), Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 17.10, to protect them aginst the Meltdown and Spectre bugs.

"Canonical engineers have been working on this since we were made aware under the embargoed disclosure (November 2017) and have worked through the Christmas... (read more)

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