Year 2038 time set problem

[Ruben Safir]

On 03/04/2018 01:31 PM, valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> Note that saying "The CPU isn't vulnerable to Meltdown/Spectre, therefor
> the 4.1 kernel is OK" is *incredibly* wrong.
> 
> For the record, since 4.1 came out, there's been at *least* a dozen security
> issues in the Linux kernel that have been a *lot* scarier for security
> professionals than the Meltdown/Spectre issue.  That only got any news coverage
> because it was an actual hardware design flaw that was believed to be difficult
> to easily fix with software changes...

By this standard, it is necessary to update the kernel and reboot nearly
every week.  Is that right?




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