Canonical Invites Ubuntu Users to Test Kernel Patches for Spectre Security Flaw

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Canonical has released preliminary kernel updates to mitigate both variants of the Spectre security vulnerability in all supported Ubuntu Linux operating systems, including all official flavors.

The company promised last week that it would release new kernel updates on Monday, January 15, 2018, for all supported Ubuntu releases. But it didn’t happen as they needed more time to thoroughly test and prepare the patches that would presumably address variant 1 and 2 of the Spectre exploit, which is harder to fix than Meltdown, so that it won’t cause any issues.

“Canonical holds Ubuntu to the highest standards of security and quality. This week we published candidate Ubu… (read more)

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