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heads' bugtracker
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linux 4.9.74 #13

Closed souperdoupe closed 6 years ago

souperdoupe commented 6 years ago

Hi,

First of all, I love the project. I think it makes many necessary improvements to the current iteration of tails -- really, I think it might be closer to tails' original vision.

My only concern is the kernel. KPTI, the meltdown mitigation, was introduced with kernel 4.9.75. I was wondering if there was a rationale behind heads using a version that, while protected with grsec (which meltdown bypasses), is vulnerable to these exploits.

Thanks for all you do!

parazyd commented 6 years ago

Yes, I'm aware that there are vulnerabilities. I'll be updating to mainline 4.15 or 4.16 for the next release.

souperdoupe commented 6 years ago

Thanks!