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All Raspberry Pi Devices Are Immune to the Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities

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Just in case you were wondering, Raspberry Pi Foundation founder Eben Upton confirmed today that none of the Raspberry Pi devices are affected by the recently disclosed Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities.

Earlier this week, two major hardware bugs were unearthed in modern processors, affecting almost all devices powered by some CPUs from Intel, AMD, or ARM made in the past two decades. The Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities are considered the worst chip flaw ever discovered, putting billions of devices at risk of attacks.

In a lengthy post published on Friday, Raspberry Pi Founder Eben Upton explains what the side-channel attack is and how speculative execution works on modern processors, claming that all Raspberry Pi models are immune to the Meltdown and Spectre security exploits as they use ARM1176, Cortex-A7, and Cortex-A53 processors.

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Comments (2)

flufferbeer ·
Seems a bit of good news that the popular DIY RPi's aren't so subject to the CPU vulnerabilities. Maybe some of us should use RPi's asmuch as possible when we can, until the vendors and maintainers catch up with patches for Intel/AMD/... arches for their Linux distros?

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seatex ·
I would love to try switching to an an ARM SBC, like the Pi. However, they still lack the horsepower and memory support I require. All of my computers currently have at least 8GB of memory with decent CPUs for crunching.

Desktop - Core i5-3470 Quad with 8GB and 1TB HD

Media - Pentium G3220 Dual with 8GB and 500GB HD

Laptop - A10-8700P Quad with 16GB and 500GB SSD

I don;t care about 4k, but I would miss the speed and memory of my x86 machines right now.

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