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
Moderators: XnTriq, helmut, xnview
Meltdown, Spectre and XnView Projects
AMD Ryzen 3 3300X 3.8Ghz, 16Gb DDR4, RX6600XT with Dell U2520D at 2560x1440@60Hz
Windows 11 Pro x64 23H2, PowerToys and Wintoys
Windows 11 Pro x64 23H2, PowerToys 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.