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Reptar, Downfall, Zenbleed, ZombieLoad, RIDL, Fallout, Foreshadow, Spectre, Meltdown vulnerability/mitigation checker for Linux & BSD

13 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 7 stories, 6 comments · first 2018-01-07 · latest 2022-10-26

Mentions per year 13 mentions · busiest year 2018 (6)
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  1. …or Spectre 1-3. It is vulnerable to variant 3a, 4, Fallout, Zombieload, and and both RIDLs. https://github.com/speed47/spectre-meltdown-checker
    comment by chasil · 2022-10-26 · in Disabling the Intel Management Engine
  2. …difficult to exploit, and the mitigations are disabled by many because of their performance impact. https://github.com/speed47/spectre-meltdown-checker
  3. …I have to add to my kernel command line? You can test your (linux/bsd) system with the following: https://github.com/speed47/spectre-meltdown-checker A shell script to tell if your system is vulnerable against the several "speculative…
    comment by xtanx · 2021-03-01 · in Spectre exploits in the "wild"
  4. …could still find a bug: https://github.com/jakeogh/commandlock On the other hand, this is amazing: https://github.com/speed47/spectre-meltdown-checker
    comment by jakeogh · 2020-02-02 · in Writing Safe Shell Scripts (2019)
  5. Is https://github.com/speed47/spectre-meltdown-checker the best tool? Impressive chunk of sh.
  6. I am not sure of that: https://github.com/speed47/spectre-meltdown-checker#quick-su... seems to say that software mitigation exists for all three variants.