{"id":2279,"date":"2018-04-30T16:29:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T23:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2279"},"modified":"2018-05-02T23:02:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T06:02:46","slug":"vmware-patch-if-you-need-better-meltdown-spectre-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2279","title":{"rendered":"VMware &#8211; Patch, If You Need Better &#8216;Meltdown\/Spectre&#8217; Protection.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks &#8211; again &#8211; to<strong> Michal Kube\u010dek<\/strong>, who<strong>\u00a0<\/strong> has pointed out that there is still a vulnerability in some VMware (<em>vmmon<\/em>) code, that is not mitigated by Kernel\/Compiler <strong><em>retpoline<\/em><\/strong> fixes, as it is written in assembler..\u00a0\u00a0 ( See comment on previous article &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2277\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2277<\/a> )<\/p>\n<p>He has provided an appropriate fix for this, at <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mkubecek\/vmware-host-modules\/tree\/player-14.1.1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/github.com\/mkubecek\/vmware-host-modules\/tree\/player-14.1.1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 April 30, 2018.<br \/>\n(updated May 2, to fix missing text..)<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks &#8211; again &#8211; to Michal Kube\u010dek, who\u00a0 has pointed out that there is still a vulnerability in some VMware (vmmon) code, that is not mitigated by Kernel\/Compiler retpoline fixes, as it is written in assembler..\u00a0\u00a0 ( See comment on previous article &#8211; https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2277 ) He has provided an appropriate fix for this, at https:\/\/github.com\/mkubecek\/vmware-host-modules\/tree\/player-14.1.1 Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=2279\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1533,1813,25],"tags":[1867,1021,1173,242,1869,1868,1870,1206,402],"class_list":["post-2279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-2","category-patches","category-retpoline","category-vmware","tag-assembler-code","tag-fix-available","tag-kernel","tag-linux","tag-meltdown","tag-spectre","tag-still-vulnerable","tag-vmmon","tag-vmware-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2279"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2289,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions\/2289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}