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Re:Meltdown Update Kernel doesnt boot by chrisper on Thursday January 11, 2018 @12:48AM (#16121680)
This is wrong and bad advice. All you need is a remote code execution vulnerability in PHP or so.

Only don't patch if your server is isolated and not connected to the internet.

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Re:Meltdown Update Kernel doesnt boot by nitrogen on Thursday January 11, 2018 @01:10AM (#16121749)
RCE is already kind of game over though. If you have RCE on the server, you can probably get to everything interesting without having to go through a slow side channel.
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Re:Meltdown Update Kernel doesnt boot by jnordwick on Thursday January 11, 2018 @01:25AM (#16121807)
If you have a remote exploit, there are much bigger issues to worry about. And since this is a timing issue, I'm not even sure that would be enough.
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