Thursday, January 4, 2018

SUSE Responds to Meltdown and Spectre CPU Vulnerabilities in SLE and openSUSE

SUSE's Matthias G. Eckermann and Marcus Meissner have released statements today regarding the recently disclosed Meltdown and Spectre CPU vulnerabilities that affect us all.

Like almost all operating systems out there, SUSE Enterprise Linux (SLE) and openSUSE (Leap and Tumbleweed) are also affected by these serious hardware bugs that could allow unprivileged attackers to steal sensitive data from kernel memory using malicious apps, and patches are coming shortly.

"SUSE engineers have been working with other hardware and operating systems vendors to prepare patches to mitigate these flaws over the last weeks and have been preparing updates. As the embargo was lifted last night, we could now also start openSUSE updat... (read more)

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