Are any of the XnView Projects affected by Meltdown and Spectre?
Luke from Linus Media Group\Floatplane Club was recently talking about a lot of software needing to be re-written or patched!
Meltdown, Spectre and XnView Projects
Meltdown, Spectre and XnView Projects
Windows 10 Pro x64 1809, Malwarebytes Premium, Process Lasso Pro
XnView Classic, Paint.NET and PhotoFiltre Studio X
XnView Classic, Paint.NET and PhotoFiltre Studio X
Re: Meltdown, Spectre and XnView Projects
i don't know, but i think that patch must be applied on OS
Pierre.
Re: Meltdown, Spectre and XnView Projects
From what I understand Meltdown requires OS patch.xnview wrote:i don't know, but i think that patch must be applied on OS
Spectre is open to abuse at the application level, provided that there is some way to load executable code, such as javascript or independently compiled plugins. Firefox has issued two workarounds to limit spectre.