Re: Might be worth while to update your kernel
"Xi Ruoyao" ([email protected] via lfs-support Mailing List) <[email protected]> Fri, 12 Sep 2025 09:14:18 +0800
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On Thu, 2025-09-11 at 20:11 +0000, Richard wrote: Quote from the book: The Linux kernel is updated quite frequently, many times due to discoveries of security vulnerabilities. The latest available stable kernel version may be used, unless the errata page says otherwise. > │ Enable mitigation for VMSCAPE attacks. VMSCAPE is a hardware > security > │ > │ vulnerability on Intel and AMD CPUs that may allow a guest to do > │ > │ Spectre v2 style attacks on userspace hypervisor. /* snip */ And... You can see it'll only make a difference if you run a VM on LFS (NOT running LFS in a VM) and run some untrusted code in the VM. I doubt if there are too many LFS users doing so. -- Xi Ruoyao <[email protected]> -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/sympa/info/lfs-support Unsubscribe: See the above information page