Re: CentOS 6 i386 - meltdown and spectre

[Akemi Yagi <amyagi@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 10:46 AM, Peter Wood <peterwood.sd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Anyway, I'm stuck with a few 32bit systems exposed to customers and I have
> to come up with an answer to their question about meltdown/spectre. At this
> point all I can say is that Red Hat hasn't patched 32bit systems but that
> is hard to believe so I assumed that I'm wrong and decided to ask the
> community.

According to a Q&A page about Meltdown and Spectre:

Question - Is the patch available for 32 bit RHEL 6.9?
Answer - 32-bit patches are pending, being of lower priority than our
RHEL 5 work at this time.

Apparently, it is not getting a high priority.

Akemi
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