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Virtuoso

Jan 04, 2018

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Plans for x86 CPU patches for Meltdown and Spectre?

Now that the x86 processor vulnerability is front-page news (and affects Intel, AMD and ARM), I wanted to check to see whether Netgear currently has plans to release firmware patches to address it in the near future.

douglas_cheung
Jan 05, 2018

Please see Security Advisory for Speculative Code Execution (Spectre and Meltdown) on Some ReadyNAS and ReadyDATA Storage Systems, PSV-2018-0005

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douglas_cheung
NETGEAR Expert
Jan 05, 2018

Please see Security Advisory for Speculative Code Execution (Spectre and Meltdown) on Some ReadyNAS and ReadyDATA Storage Systems, PSV-2018-0005
chopin70
Virtuoso
Jan 04, 2018
+1
It is really annoying. My RN524X is new and not cheap. Meltdown patch could decrease performance. However, Spectre is not patchable by kernel. How can we ensure apps in Netgear app store are safe? And all running services...

Hope we get soon an official and very clear statement about this.