Oracle Linux
Shown are the latest kernel versions as of the 9th of January which have Meltdown and Spectre patches.
Kernel versions can be found when running the `uname -r` command.
After the kernel is installed one can find the kernel/packages changelog and security info with the following commands and see in the page table isolation has been activated:
# yum updateinfo list # yum updateinfo list cves # yum updateinfo list kernel-uek # yum updateinfo list --sec-severity=Important # yum updateinfo info --sec-severity=Important CVE-2017-1000407 Important/Sec. kernel-uek-4.1.12-112.14.13.el7uek.x86_64 # dmesg | grep isolation [ 0.000000] Kernel/User page tables isolation: enabled # rpm -q --changelog kernel | egrep 'CVE-2017-5715|CVE-2017-5753|CVE-2017-5754' # rpm -q --changelog kernel-uek | egrep 'CVE-2017-5715|CVE-2017-5753|CVE-2017-5754'
Oracle Linux version 6
Kernel: 2.6.32-696.18.7 (errata: ELSA-2018-0008), 2018-01-04.
Kernel-uek: 4.1.12-112.14.10 (errata: ELSA-2018-4006), 2018-01-09.
Oracle Linux version 7
Kernel: 3.10.0-693.11.6 (errata: ELSA-2018-0007), 2018-01-04.
Kernel-uek: 4.1.12-112.14.10 (errata: ELSA-2018-4006), 2018-01-04.
Oracle VM version 3.4
Xen: 4.4.4-155.0.12.el6 (errata: OVMSA-2018-0006), 2018-01-08.