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Encryption-breaking, password-leaking bug in many AMD CPUs could take months to fix
(arstechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2023
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This is exactly the kind of thing that gets backported to stable LTS distros tho. The kernel Major.Minor is just the base - it doesn't tell the whole story.
Right - I was just objecting to the suggestion that once upstream has the fix, “Linux users will be safe”.