I am being asked does SELinux provide any protection on Meltdown/Spectre.

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Subject: I am being asked does SELinux provide any protection on Meltdown/Spectre.
From: Daniel Walsh <dwalsh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 12:32:11 -0500
Organization: Red Hat
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Or SECCOMP for that matter. From my limited reading, I have not seenwhat an application needs to access to trigger this vulnerabiltiy. Isthis just using standard SYSCALLS, that we could not block withoutbreaking the applications?


Anyone have thoughts on this?


Dan

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