Meltdown & Spectre Information and Discussion

[Moltke]

Do the new meltdown / spectre kernels update automatically or is this something I have to manually do using Synaptic Package Manager

For kernel updates follow this link and read through the thread.

https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/linux.../#msg38277

Is the kernel posted above secure enough or is there a new more secure kernel which I should update to

run this command to find out

Code:

$ grep . /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/*