hw: cpu: speculative execution permission faults handling

An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructions a commonly used performance optimization. There are three primary variants of the issue which differ in the way the speculative execution can be exploited. Variant...

MGASA-2018-0064 kernel-linus update provides 4.14 series and fixes security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update provides an upgrade to the 4.14 longterm branch, currently based on 4.14.10. It also fixes at least the following security issues: An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Broadcom wi-fi driver CVE-2017-0786. Use-after-free vulnerability in the sndpcminfo function i...