Tests to run for Spectre & Meltdown to c if ur affected
Posted: Fri 12 Jan 2018, 12:21
Title says it all.
Yesterday Prehistoric posted this:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 901#979901.
In that msg it has this site, for testing your machines for vulnerabilities to Spectre & Meltdown:
https://www.howtogeek.com/338801/how-to ... d-spectre/
Problem bugger all looks-wise, is those tests seem to be run on Microsoft OSes only. Or can they (since they're scripts) be run on our Linux OSes we run plus maybe our Puppies (Fatdog released a new, patched ISO, which I'm on now, along with FF57.04 (mentioned below), all on 10 yr old Athlon X2 chips, running everything in Firejail, so I am trying my best here )??
Past 72 hours I've seen across many of my Linux OSes updates flying in, "intel-mircocode-this-and-that" and kernel stuff. Browsers too: Firefox 57.04 has applied browser patch with 57.04 and onwards. Google can't/won't be able to get theirs out to 23 Jan (those lame a## lazy hillbillies, start moving your nuts).
So, overall, listen, I can't be the only one: all I wanna know----is there some kind of tests we can run? Anyone actually know? Instead of reading and looking at graphs and/or articles & guessing/surmising that our system(s) are vulnerable & cooked, and possibly never patchable, etc, etc, there's gotta be something like what prehistoric linked above, right? I mean, we are PUPPY! All the geniuses in the Linux world reside here, and us minions benefit from all of your collective mental prowess & acumen Jump a step ahead and save the whole Linux world, you all can do it! Give us test scripts or whatever to run across all our Linux babies, pups and non-pups alike.
P.S. Please, for the love of crap, don't post useless drivel in this thread: What is useless drivel? I.E. like about how there's a good chance there are no spectre & meltdown stuff already out there, so settle down and drink some hot cocoa. Or, even worse, just to take care of yourself and be safe surfing (oh sweetie, just turn javascript off in any browser---well, BITE ME---no javascript makes the web non-functional for all sites---even murga, cannot post right without it) and lay off the NoScript/etc mentioning, which is and has always been a bandaid major PITA and not worth the bits space it takes up. Lightweight adblockers, especially ublock-origin, as an example, yes, useful and most of us run some form of that. It's stuff like this. Nix it in this thread. Just keep this conversation/thread specifically to tests we can definitively and/or possibly run regarding Spectre & Meltdown. Thank you.
Yesterday Prehistoric posted this:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 901#979901.
In that msg it has this site, for testing your machines for vulnerabilities to Spectre & Meltdown:
https://www.howtogeek.com/338801/how-to ... d-spectre/
Problem bugger all looks-wise, is those tests seem to be run on Microsoft OSes only. Or can they (since they're scripts) be run on our Linux OSes we run plus maybe our Puppies (Fatdog released a new, patched ISO, which I'm on now, along with FF57.04 (mentioned below), all on 10 yr old Athlon X2 chips, running everything in Firejail, so I am trying my best here )??
Past 72 hours I've seen across many of my Linux OSes updates flying in, "intel-mircocode-this-and-that" and kernel stuff. Browsers too: Firefox 57.04 has applied browser patch with 57.04 and onwards. Google can't/won't be able to get theirs out to 23 Jan (those lame a## lazy hillbillies, start moving your nuts).
So, overall, listen, I can't be the only one: all I wanna know----is there some kind of tests we can run? Anyone actually know? Instead of reading and looking at graphs and/or articles & guessing/surmising that our system(s) are vulnerable & cooked, and possibly never patchable, etc, etc, there's gotta be something like what prehistoric linked above, right? I mean, we are PUPPY! All the geniuses in the Linux world reside here, and us minions benefit from all of your collective mental prowess & acumen Jump a step ahead and save the whole Linux world, you all can do it! Give us test scripts or whatever to run across all our Linux babies, pups and non-pups alike.
P.S. Please, for the love of crap, don't post useless drivel in this thread: What is useless drivel? I.E. like about how there's a good chance there are no spectre & meltdown stuff already out there, so settle down and drink some hot cocoa. Or, even worse, just to take care of yourself and be safe surfing (oh sweetie, just turn javascript off in any browser---well, BITE ME---no javascript makes the web non-functional for all sites---even murga, cannot post right without it) and lay off the NoScript/etc mentioning, which is and has always been a bandaid major PITA and not worth the bits space it takes up. Lightweight adblockers, especially ublock-origin, as an example, yes, useful and most of us run some form of that. It's stuff like this. Nix it in this thread. Just keep this conversation/thread specifically to tests we can definitively and/or possibly run regarding Spectre & Meltdown. Thank you.