# About the Meltdown/Spectre updates

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/about-the-meltdown-spectre-updates/31921>\
**Category:** SLES Updates\
**Created:** [January 17, 2018, 3:33pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/about-the-meltdown-spectre-updates/31921 "2018-01-17T15:33:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![SystemMF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@SystemMF](https://forums.suse.com/u/SystemMF)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 3:33pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/about-the-meltdown-spectre-updates/31921/1 "2018-01-17T15:33:34Z")

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Hi,

Do you know if any of the kernel updates for the Meltdown/Spectre will work on the SLES 11 SP2 ?

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**Author:** ![ab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@ab1](https://forums.suse.com/u/ab1)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 4:01pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/about-the-meltdown-spectre-updates/31921/2 "2018-01-17T16:01:19Z")

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The Patch Builder download site seems to show that there are kernel builds  
for SLES 11 SP3 if you have purchased the long-term support (LTSS); this  
is also documented in the CVEs for the issues, as well as TIDs:  
[https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=7022512](https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=7022512)

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**Author:** ![ab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@ab1](https://forums.suse.com/u/ab1)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 4:03pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/about-the-meltdown-spectre-updates/31921/3 "2018-01-17T16:03:41Z")

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Sorry; I sent before I was finished.

Since you are using an Enterprise Linux (SLES) distribution, it is not  
usually recommended to speculate on whether something out of support will  
work with some other patches; they have not been tested, but sure they may  
work. If anything goes wrong though, with this fairly-serious kernel  
patch, your system may not boot, or it may not run reliably, or it may  
behave erratically, or its performance may be much worse than expected.  
If you care about the services on these boxes, you may want to seriously  
look into upgrading to current code so that patches can be applied  
normally resolving the issue.

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