The Debian Project released updated Linux kernels for Debian GNU/Linux 9 “Stretch” and Debian GNU/Linux 8 “Jessie” operating system series to patch the Meltdown security vulnerability and other issues.
Last week, Debian GNU/Linux 9 “Stretch” users received the Linux kernel patch to mitigate the Meltdown security vulnerability (CVE-2017-5754) that affects billions of devices by allowing attackers to control unprivileged processes and read the memory from random addresses, including the kernel, as well as other processes running on the unpatched machine. To patch the issue, users had to update the kernel to version 4.9.65-3+deb9u2.
“This specific attack has been named Meltdown and is addressed in the Linux kernel for the Intel x86-64 architecture by a patch set named Kernel Page Table Isolation, enforcing a near compl… (read more)
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