POWER CPU patches available now or next week, AIX and i OS fixes are more than a month off
January 10th, 2018 By Simon Sharwood
http://www.theregister.co.uk/design_picker/c00f80f04b0eaf0123d821f6c9488fc1cb55fd0a/graphics/icon/twitter.pngIBM’s started to release its own patches for the Meltdown mess and the Spectre SNAFU, which it’s half-confirmed impact its hardware and operating systems, but won’t have a complete fix until mid-February.
We say half-confirmed because Big Blue has only said it has problems with the processor issues Google mentioned last week, rather than naming either bug.
The company strongly hinted that POWER systems were in trouble last Thursday, January 4th. On Tuesday the 9th the company confirmed the problem, admitting that its kit “could allow a party that has access to the system to access unauthorized data.”
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