Fedora Project Continues to Work on Mitigating Meltdown & Spectre Security Flaws

In an update published on Monday, Fedora Project informs users of the Fedora Linux operating system that it continues to work on mitigating the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities.

In the article, Laura Abbott, Fedora Kernel Engineer at Red Hat, explains what has been done until now to mitigate both Meltdown and Spectre attacks on supported Fedora Linux distributions. As Meltdown is easier to fix than Spectre, the KPTI (Kernel Page-table Isolation) patches have already reached the Fedora Linux repositories, but Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (IBRS) patches for Spectre are on their way.

"The fixes for Meltdown are mostly underway. The Meltdown fix for x86 is KPTI. KPTI has been merged into the mainline Linux tree and many... (read more)

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