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Subject: Re: Meltdown / Spectre
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2018 11:30:10 +0100
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To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
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Hi,

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:

> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:
>
>> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
>>
>>> The Spectre bugs have to be fixed per-application for now. As far as I
>>> know, we haven't made any related changes to packages besides
>>> linux-libre.
>>>
>>> Mozilla has released an update that is supposed to mitigate the
>>> vulnerability but I don't if they'll be porting it back to the extended
>>> support release that Icecat is based on.
>>
>> I just backported the Spectre mitigation from Firefox 57.0.4 to IceCat,
>> and pushed it to master here:
>>
>>   https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=3Dc23243fccd4f73=
430ca06a862acd33c020c8ed17
>
> I just followed this up with a Spectre mitigation for WebKitGTK+
> backported from upstream WebKit:
>
>   https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=3D56804398a94bea9=
41183ae4ed29d2a9f82069a6f

Thanks a lot Leo and Mark for the quick fixes and the detailed report.

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