Re: Side channel vulnerabilities

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Sep 06, 2021 at 06:48:43AM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I have trouble finding concrete information about 
> NetBSD/xen status about side-channel memory attacks.
> The fact that there are many of them do not help.
> 
> Do we have up to date information avout the required
> setup to be safe against lst night Meltdown/Spectre/L1TF
> variant?

AFAIK with the latest pkgsrc Xen versions we are safe.
But this also depends on the CPU model and microcode version, which
makes it even more tricky to track down. In some cases a microcode or
BIOS update may be needed.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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