Meltdown – Patching centos

The patches are out for centos 5/6/7 and you can install them simply by the normal update command.

yum update

and then restarting.

To check the patches are installed run:

rpm -q –changelog kernel | egrep ‘CVE-2017-5715|CVE-2017-5753|CVE-2017-5754’

and make sure you have entries for all three CVE numers.