* timofonic timofonic:
> Paranoid jails/sandboxes inside a virtual machine may mitigate a lot
> the risk for those untrusted binaries, right?
Someone needs to impelement those sandboxes and virtual machines, and
GCC changes may help with writing them in such a way that they are
less exposed to th
On 1/5/18, Eric Gallager wrote:
> On 1/4/18, Will Hawkins wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 10:10 PM, Eric Gallager
>> wrote:
>>> Is there anything GCC could be doing at the compiler level to mitigate
>>> the recently-announced Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities? From
>>> reading about them, it
On 1/4/18, Will Hawkins wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 10:10 PM, Eric Gallager
> wrote:
>> Is there anything GCC could be doing at the compiler level to mitigate
>> the recently-announced Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities? From
>> reading about them, it seems like they involve speculative exe
Paranoid jails/sandboxes inside a virtual machine may mitigate a lot
the risk for those untrusted binaries, right? Plus using a debugger
and maybe an antivirus (I don't trust them so much and prefer to
isolate them too)?
What about already built software? Can those be "fixed"? What about
GLibC? Wh
On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 7:14 PM, Zan Lynx wrote:
>
> On January 4, 2018 8:10:14 PM MST, Eric Gallager wrote:
>>Is there anything GCC could be doing at the compiler level to mitigate
>>the recently-announced Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities? From
>>reading about them, it seems like they involve
On January 4, 2018 8:10:14 PM MST, Eric Gallager wrote:
>Is there anything GCC could be doing at the compiler level to mitigate
>the recently-announced Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities? From
>reading about them, it seems like they involve speculative execution
>and indirect branch prediction,
On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 10:10 PM, Eric Gallager wrote:
> Is there anything GCC could be doing at the compiler level to mitigate
> the recently-announced Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities? From
> reading about them, it seems like they involve speculative execution
> and indirect branch prediction
