Re:Intel Issues Updates to Protect Systems from Security Exp...
by mook on Friday January 05, 2018 @12:58AM
(#16076852)
The Ubuntu page that was on HN earlier [] claims that they were notified in early November. I have no idea if kernel people (as opposed to distro people) got notified earlier.
[]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/SpectreAn...