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Is NetBSD vulnerable to modern processor flaws
Today news of critical vulnerabilities (for example,
http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-reveals-trio-of-speculative-execution-flaws-says-amd-affected/
) affecting Intel and Arm and maybe AMD processors hit the press. News
reports say all platforms using these chips, such as Linux, Microsoft,
and Apple are affected since the flaw is in hardware but the fix must be
made in the software operating system kernel. It has been reported that
Linux developers say the fix involves fundamental changes to the way the
Linux kernel handles virtual memory and they have been working on the
fix for a while (see for example,
http://www.zdnet.com/article/major-linux-redesign-in-the-works-to-deal-with-intel-chip-security-problem/
). I could not tell from NetBSD security documentation if NetBSD is
vulnerable to these flaws or not or if work has been done in NetBSD to
mitigate these security flaws in the hardware that NetBSD runs on. Can
anyone say if NetBSD is vulnerable?
Chuck Zmudzinski
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