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
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Meltdown, Spectre and XnView Projects
AMD Ryzen 3 3300X 3.8Ghz, 16Gb DDR4, RX6600XT with Dell U2520D at 2560x1440@60Hz scaling 125%
Win11 x64 24H2, Hard Disk Sentinel Pro, MS PowerToys, Process Lasso Pro and Wintoys
Win11 x64 24H2, Hard Disk Sentinel Pro, MS PowerToys, Process Lasso Pro and Wintoys
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.