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I'm worried about the intel hardware level meltdown hacking. Several days ago, I experienced my Ubuntu system malfunctioning from booting. It went to something like initramfs. I couldn't fix the issue so I changed the kernel to previous version, 4.10. (I'm using Ubuntu 16.04.) Then it succeeded to boot normally. However I'm now worried since I feel like I should use the newer version that had issue booting. What should I do? Where do I confirm which version kernel is safe?

muru
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There is an open source bash script which checks vulnerabilities of your kernel and tells if it is patched. 

 wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/speed47/spectre-meltdown-checker/master/spectre-meltdown-checker.sh

 sudo chmod +x spectre-meltdown-checker.sh

and run it with root privileges

 sudo sh spectre-meltdown-checker.sh

For more info : https://github.com/speed47/spectre-meltdown-checker

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