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A fix for Spectre & Meltdown: update your Linux kernel in place (running CentOS/RHEL 7 or above), and live happily ever after

Cloud Insidr 2018-04-04 13 Comments

A fix for Spectre & Meltdown: update your Linux kernel in place (running CentOS/RHEL 7 or above), and live happily ever after

If you launch an instance from the official CentOS or RHEL 7.x AMI on AWS, you will be running kernel 3.1 as of this writing. That’s not a good idea. You can easily take advantage of improved security features of newer kernels that are already available in a stable release. The renowned Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman released the Linux Kernel 4.14.15, which includes important fixes for Spectre & Meltdown. Here is how to update your Linux kernel from 3.1 to 4.16.11 in place.

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