Mitigating Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities on PureApplication environments

Originally posted on IBM Developer blog “Exploring PureApplication System, Software Service and more”  by Hendrik van Run on 1 May 2018 (3208 visits)

Towards the end of last year, many clients were made aware of the security vulnerabilities found in processors from Intel, AMD and IBM:

• CVE-2017-5715
• CVE-2017-5753
• CVE-2017-5754

These security vulnerabilities also impact clients running PureApplication environments. IBM has released two technotes last week, detailing how to mitigate against these security vulnerabilities:

• Mitigating CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5754 in PureApplication W1500, W2500, W3500, and W3550
• Mitigating CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5754 in PureApplication System W1700, W2700, and W3700