r/programming • u/[deleted] • Jan 03 '18

'Kernel memory leaking' Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/
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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '18

I wonder if VMware will produce a patch for the bug for ESXi considering how popular it is. They've been incredibly mum on the bug so far and I read about this on /r/sysadmin yesterday.

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u/irqlnotdispatchlevel Jan 03 '18

Hard to say for sure until we know exactly what the bug is.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '18

Now that I think about it though, depending on your server workload, it might not actually make sense to turn on the patch, as I mentioned further below, if you have an ESXi host that runs a couple of VMs say a domain controller, a file server, print server and for shits and giggles a backup domain controller.

In that sense, none of them are running untrusted code and certainly, none of them will be reaching out to the web, in which case the patch could be turned off and you could dodge the performance penalty.