Re:Scaleway patches infrastructure to mitigate Intel bug
by ams6110 on Thursday January 04, 2018 @03:05PM
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From what I've been reading, none of the BSDs were notified.
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Re:Scaleway patches infrastructure to mitigate Intel bug
by JdeBP on Thursday January 04, 2018 @05:07PM
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The FreeBSD people were notified a week or so ago.
* https://www.freebsd.org/news/newsflash.html#event20180104:01
The Ubuntu people also got that same notification it appears, but were also secretly told by Intel in November 2017.
* https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/SpectreAn... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16071769)
People are claiming that the OpenBSD people knew years ago, but what Theo de Raadt was discussing then was a list of published errata for the Core Duo. The bugs that are in the news right now were never published errata. I suspect that the OpenBSD people found out about them at the same time that the world at large did.