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How to mitigate the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities on Linux systems?

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

Security researchers have published on the Project Zero a new vulnerability called Spectre and Meltdown allowing a program to steal information from a memory of others programs. It affects Intel, AMD and ARM architectures.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags linux, vulnerability, x86 Leave a comment

How do I know that my CPU supports 64bit operating systems under Linux?

August 10, 2022 by Magenaut

How can I find out that my CPU supports 64bit operating systems under Linux, e.g.: Ubuntu, Fedora?

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags 64bit, linux, x86 Leave a comment

Load Linux bzImage in QEMU?

August 9, 2022 by Magenaut

I compiled a Linux by doing make menuconfig then make and now I have compiled the most recent version of Linux. How can I load the kernel into QEMU?

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags boot, linux, linux-kernel, qemu, x86 Leave a comment

Is it possible to compile a full Linux system with Intel’s compiler instead of GCC?

August 8, 2022 by Magenaut

Maybe there are some compatibility issues?

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags compiling, x86 Leave a comment

How to detect and mitigate the Intel escalation of privilege vulnerability on a Linux system (CVE-2017-5689)?

August 7, 2022 by Magenaut

According to the Intel security-center post dated May 1, 2017, there is a critical vulnerability on Intel processors which could allow an attacker to gain privilege (escalation of privilege) using AMT, ISM and SBT.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags hardware, linux, security, vulnerability, x86 Leave a comment

82MB of “reserved memory” on 512MB (x86) system

August 6, 2022 by Magenaut

I reinstalled a fresh debian 10 on an old x86 system with 512MB RAM (everything works ok).
Available memory is 431MB. (No graphic card plugged right now)

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags linux, memory, ram, x86 Leave a comment
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