[Users] X86_BUG_CPU_INSECURE

[Narcis Garcia]

As I understand from dasunsrule32's post, affected CPUs show a flag
X86_BUG_CPU_INSECURE (?!).
Does this mean that Intel is distributing CPUs marking them as
defective?! ...or is this flag from kernel detection?

+ Is somebody listing fixed CPU models?

Note: I suppose neither OpenVZ 6 nor LXC are affected by this hardware bug.



El 03/01/18 a les 02:02, Benjamin Henrion ha escrit:
> Hi,
> 
> Just reading this:
> 
> https://amp.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/7nl8r0/intel_bug_incoming/
> 
> Xen seems to have a pending patch to be release this week, but people
> are speculating now that you could bypass the entire isolation process
> provided by any hypervisor.
> 
> Wait and see how this will be exploited, but you can be sure there
> will be exploits soon in the wild.
> 
> The patch for software mitigation seems to be big and performance impacting.
> 
> But that would probably mean that containers can be bypassed.
> 
> Wait and see,
> 
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