MDS mitigations are not enabled despite having proper kernel and microcode versions
Issue
After installing the latest kernel
and microcode_ctl
package versions the MDS CPU vulnerability is still reported as not mitigated despite having the microcode updated as per the kernel log.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
kernel
version2.6.32-754.14.2
microcode_ctl
version1.17-33.11
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