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Message #89 received at 28004 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
To: ng0 <ng0 <at> n0.is>
Cc: 28004 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>,
 ng0 <ng0 <at> n0.is>, Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
Subject: Re: [bug#28004] Chromium
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 01:09:04 +0100

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ng0 <ng0 <at> n0.is> writes:

> Many thanks for your ongoing work with this (and the patience :))
> As this is 63, you you are keeping track of Debian, right? I tried
> to package 64 a couple of days ago because I wanted the workaround
> for some of the recent security clusterfucks, but Debian is still
> on 63 :/
> I hope they'll update their patchset soon.

Indeed Google did not add the Spectre mitigation to Chromium 63, even
though the latest version was released after the fact.

https://xlab.tencent.com/special/spectre/spectre_check.html

For reasons that beat me, they only added it to the proprietary Chrome
browser, which follows the same version number as Chromium.

The attached patch adds Spectre mitigation to the current Chromium
release.  The patch was pulled from the Chrome 64 branch:

[0001-gnu-chromium-Add-spectre-mitigation.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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