Script to check for Meltdown and/or Spectre vulnerability

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calinb
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Architecture FYI, in case anyone's interested.

#31 Post by calinb »

Raspberry Pi Founder's brief introduction to the CPU concepts and architectures that make Meltdown and Spectre possible:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/why-ra ... -meltdown/

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Richard
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Re: Script to check for Meltdown and/or Spectre vulnerability

#32 Post by Richard »

Off-topic:
CP/M 2.2 was great and fast.
Not so pretty but efficient
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Re: Script to check for Meltdown and/or Spectre vulnerability

#33 Post by stsoh »

halfway there........ mitigation 2 of variant 2 + variant 3 not vulnerable.

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Spectre and Meltdown mitigation detection tool v0.32

Checking for vulnerabilities on current system
Kernel is Linux 4.14.15 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jan 24 18:30:48 +08 2018 x86_64
CPU is Pentium(R) Dual-Core  CPU      E5400  @ 2.70GHz

CVE-2017-5753 [bounds check bypass] aka 'Spectre Variant 1'
* Mitigated according to the /sys interface:  NO  (kernel confirms your system is vulnerable)
> STATUS:  VULNERABLE  (Vulnerable)

CVE-2017-5715 [branch target injection] aka 'Spectre Variant 2'
* Mitigated according to the /sys interface:  NO  (kernel confirms your system is vulnerable)
* Mitigation 1
  * Hardware support (CPU microcode)
    * Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (IBRS)
      * SPEC_CTRL MSR is available:  NO 
      * CPU indicates IBRS capability:  NO 
    * Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier (IBPB)
      * PRED_CMD MSR is available:  NO 
      * CPU indicates IBPB capability:  NO 
  * Kernel is compiled with IBRS/IBPB support:  NO 
  * Currently enabled features
    * IBRS enabled for Kernel space:  NO 
    * IBRS enabled for User space:  NO 
    * IBPB enabled:  NO 
* Mitigation 2
  * Kernel compiled with retpoline option:  YES 
  * Kernel compiled with a retpoline-aware compiler:  NO  (kernel reports minimal retpoline compilation)
  * Retpoline enabled:  YES 
> STATUS:  NOT VULNERABLE  (your CPU vendor reported your CPU model as not vulnerable)

CVE-2017-5754 [rogue data cache load] aka 'Meltdown' aka 'Variant 3'
* Mitigated according to the /sys interface:  YES  (kernel confirms that the mitigation is active)
* Kernel supports Page Table Isolation (PTI):  YES 
* PTI enabled and active:  YES 
* Running under Xen PV (64 bits):  UNKNOWN  (dmesg truncated, please reboot and relaunch this script)
> STATUS:  NOT VULNERABLE  (your CPU vendor reported your CPU model as not vulnerable)

A false sense of security is worse than no security at all, see --disclaimer
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Re: Script to check for Meltdown and/or Spectre vulnerability

#34 Post by timkb4cq »

Richard wrote:Off-topic:
CP/M 2.2 was great and fast.
Not so pretty but efficient
For it's day, perhaps. But what I remember was Put in Wordstar disk, start the program, go to the kitchen & get a drink while it loaded up. Work efficiently once it was loaded.
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Re: Script to check for Meltdown and/or Spectre vulnerability

#35 Post by Richard »

yes the floppy was slow
but my Kaypro with 10 MB hard drive
seemed instantaneous. :)
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Re: Script to check for Meltdown and/or Spectre vulnerability

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Spectre and Meltdown mitigation detection tool v0.33

Checking for vulnerabilities on current system
Kernel is Linux 4.14.15 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jan 24 18:30:48 +08 2018 x86_64
CPU is Pentium(R) Dual-Core  CPU      E5400  @ 2.70GHz

Hardware check
* Hardware support (CPU microcode) for mitigation techniques
  * Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (IBRS)
    * SPEC_CTRL MSR is available:  NO 
    * CPU indicates IBRS capability:  NO 
  * Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier (IBPB)
    * PRED_CMD MSR is available:  NO 
    * CPU indicates IBPB capability:  NO 
  * Single Thread Indirect Branch Predictors (STIBP)
    * SPEC_CTRL MSR is available:  NO 
    * CPU indicates STIBP capability:  NO 
  * Enhanced IBRS (IBRS_ALL)
    * CPU indicates ARCH_CAPABILITIES MSR availability:  NO 
    * ARCH_CAPABILITIES MSR advertises IBRS_ALL capability:  NO 
  * CPU explicitly indicates not being vulnerable to Meltdown (RDCL_NO):  NO 
  * CPU microcode is known to cause stability problems:  NO 
* CPU vulnerability to the three speculative execution attacks variants
  * Vulnerable to Variant 1:  YES 
  * Vulnerable to Variant 2:  NO 
  * Vulnerable to Variant 3:  NO 

CVE-2017-5753 [bounds check bypass] aka 'Spectre Variant 1'
* Mitigated according to the /sys interface:  NO  (kernel confirms your system is vulnerable)
> STATUS:  VULNERABLE  (Vulnerable)

CVE-2017-5715 [branch target injection] aka 'Spectre Variant 2'
* Mitigated according to the /sys interface:  NO  (kernel confirms your system is vulnerable)
* Mitigation 1
  * Kernel is compiled with IBRS/IBPB support:  NO 
  * Currently enabled features
    * IBRS enabled for Kernel space:  NO 
    * IBRS enabled for User space:  NO 
    * IBPB enabled:  NO 
* Mitigation 2
  * Kernel compiled with retpoline option:  YES 
  * Kernel compiled with a retpoline-aware compiler:  NO  (kernel reports minimal retpoline compilation)
  * Retpoline enabled:  YES 
> STATUS:  NOT VULNERABLE  (your CPU vendor reported your CPU model as not vulnerable)

CVE-2017-5754 [rogue data cache load] aka 'Meltdown' aka 'Variant 3'
* Mitigated according to the /sys interface:  YES  (kernel confirms that the mitigation is active)
* Kernel supports Page Table Isolation (PTI):  YES 
* PTI enabled and active:  YES 
* Running as a Xen PV DomU:  NO 
> STATUS:  NOT VULNERABLE  (your CPU vendor reported your CPU model as not vulnerable)

A false sense of security is worse than no security at all, see --disclaimer
MX-17.1_x64 Horizon, G41M-P33 Combo (MS-7592), Pentium E5400 (2706 MHz), 8Gb RAM (984 MT/s),
Intel 4 Series Integrated Graphics, Realtek PCIe Fast RTL8101/2/6E, PCI Gigabit RTL8169 Ethernets.
Accepted Linux when i found MX-Linux in 2016.

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