Re: Is NetBSD vulnerable to modern processor flaws

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <5267d400-4a5e-e27f-906d-d2d6e048de62%gmail.com@localhost>,
Chuck Zmudzinski  <frchuckz%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>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?

Yes, NetBSD is vulnerable on the processors affected.

christos