Lanky_Pomegranate530Encryption-breaking, password-leaking bug in many AMD CPUs could take months to fix
I_like_catsLinux has a merged mitigation so when the new kernel comes out Linux users will be safe
when the new kernel comes out Linux users will be safe
It’s going to take a lot longer than that for most distros to move to latest upstream. This specific fix might be pulled in as a hotfix if you’re lucky, but it still takes time. The latest Ubuntu LTS is on 5.15, for example, which was released in October 2021. Debian Bookworm, which just released last month, uses 6.1 from December 2022.
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.