Spectre and Meltdown fixes
ThinkAgile CP has released a hotfix to protect the hardware against Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. For full protection, software patches for these vulnerabilities should be installed within the instance OS.
After installing a patch for Spectre and Meltdown within an instance OS, shut down the instance and then start it, rather than just rebooting the instance.
Windows:
For most Windows machines, the patches for Spectre and Meltdown are included in Windows Updates (see this article for more details).
Microsoft has identified a compatibility issue with some antivirus software products, so only machines running compatible antivirus software will receive the Spectre and Meltdown updates through Windows Update (see this article for more details).
Linux:
Most Linux distributions have patches for the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. To apply these patches, run your regular package manager to download and install the latest updates (see this article for more details).
For Ubuntu and Debian, run the following commands to install the patch:
sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get dist-upgrade
For CentOS and RHEL, run the following command to install the patch:
sudo yum update
For Fedora, run the following command to install the patch:
sudo dnf update
There are currently no patches released for FreeBSD distributions.