It's worth keeping in mind that there are very likely important security bugs far more dangerous than rowhammer-style attacks in Mach, let alone the Hurd. Security-critical applications should be pretty cautious.
Hello,
Jonathan Sélea, on sam. 03 févr. 2018 11:59:40 +0100, wrote:
> How much is HURD affected by the Meltdown/Spectre bugs that has gotten
> alot of attention lately?
Just like about any OS that tries to optimize at least a bit: meltdown
allows to read all of the main memory.
There is a meltdown gnumach branch to mitigate that part, but my time
has been caught by the need for upstreaming glibc.
Samuel