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Re: Intel Microcode updates

From Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au>
Newsgroups linux.debian.security
Subject Re: Intel Microcode updates
Date 2019-06-11 21:20 +0200
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Hi,

> On 12/6/19 3:16 am, Holger Levsen wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 03:05:13AM +1000, Andrew McGlashan
>> wrote:
>>> Exploiting the flaws needs malicious code to be running on your
>>>  box.  If you are in total control over all VMs and processes
>>> on the box, then you should be good.
> 
>> do you use a webbrowser with javascript enabled?
> 
> Good point, yes that is another risk.

Actually though, if you update your browser to lessen the granularity
of time that the exploits require, it might not be an issue.  So,
don't run an out of date browser....  is that enough?

Cheers
A.
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  Re: Intel Microcode updates Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-06-10 13:20 +0200
    Re: Intel Microcode updates Davide Prina <davide.prina@gmail.com> - 2019-06-10 19:50 +0200
      Re: Intel Microcode updates Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-06-10 20:40 +0200
        Re: Intel Microcode updates Davide Prina <davide.prina@gmail.com> - 2019-06-11 20:10 +0200
          Re: Intel Microcode updates Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-06-11 22:00 +0200
    Re: Intel Microcode updates Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> - 2019-06-11 14:00 +0200
  Re: Intel Microcode updates Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2019-06-11 04:20 +0200
    Re: Intel Microcode updates Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> - 2019-06-11 14:00 +0200
      Re: Intel Microcode updates Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> - 2019-06-11 14:30 +0200
        Re: Intel Microcode updates Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2019-06-12 17:00 +0200
          Re: Intel Microcode updates Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com> - 2019-06-18 13:00 +0200
            Re: Intel Microcode updates Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2019-06-23 22:30 +0200
              Re: Intel Microcode updates Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com> - 2019-06-23 22:40 +0200
                Re: Intel Microcode updates Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2019-06-24 04:10 +0200
              Re: Intel Microcode updates Davide Prina <davide.prina@gmail.com> - 2019-06-24 19:40 +0200
          Re: Intel Microcode updates Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com> - 2019-06-18 22:10 +0200
          Re: Intel Microcode updates Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com> - 2019-06-22 14:30 +0200
    Re: Intel Microcode updates Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2019-06-11 19:10 +0200
      Re: Intel Microcode updates Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2019-06-11 19:20 +0200
        Re: Intel Microcode updates Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2019-06-11 21:10 +0200
          Re: Intel Microcode updates Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2019-06-11 21:20 +0200
            Re: Intel Microcode updates Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com> - 2019-06-18 11:20 +0200
              Re: Intel Microcode updates Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2019-06-18 20:30 +0200
                Re: Intel Microcode updates Rob van der Putten <rob@sput.nl> - 2019-06-20 14:40 +0200
            Re: Intel Microcode updates Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com> - 2019-06-18 22:10 +0200
            Re: Intel Microcode updates Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com> - 2019-06-22 14:30 +0200
    Re: Intel Microcode updates Davide Prina <davide.prina@gmail.com> - 2019-06-23 10:00 +0200
      Re: Intel Microcode updates Lou Poppler <LouPoppler@cableone.net> - 2019-06-24 02:20 +0200
        Re: Intel Microcode updates Davide Prina <davide.prina@gmail.com> - 2019-06-24 20:00 +0200

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