Hi,

> On 27 May 2019, at 21:26, Peter Müller <peter.mueller(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> after testing too little in the past months, I am hereby
> trying to catch up for announced Core Update 132.

Cool!

> 
> Most services are running as expected:
> - IPsec
> - OpenVPN (tested with RW connections only)
> - DDNS
> - Squid (non-transparent, including upstream proxy)
> - Suricata (IPS mode, activated on all interfaces)
> 
> Tor suffers from missing libseccomp dependency and a permission
> bug (see #12088), but starts correctly after installing the
> library and fixing /var/lib/tor permissions manually.
> 
> I can confirm IDS rulesets download works in combination
> with an upstream proxy now (tested with Emerging Threats).
> 
> Suricata seems to drop some packets (as internal connections
> sometimes take ages to establish), but does not log anything.
> This requires some further investigation, and it is kind
> of an evident-missing blame at the moment.

Yes. I am aware of this and we have a ticket for it:

  https://bugzilla.ipfire.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12078

> 
> Talking about the <sarcasm>all-new-and-improved Intel CPU vulnerabilities</sarcasm>,
> disabling SMT automatically seems to work:
> 
>> [root(a)maverick ~]# grep . /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/*
>> /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/l1tf:Not affected
>> /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/mds:Mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled
>> /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/meltdown:Mitigation: PTI
>> /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spec_store_bypass:Not affected
>> /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v1:Mitigation: __user pointer sanitization
>> /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2:Mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling

You got a royal flush there. Almost hit them all.

> (CPU is an Intel Celeron N3150 4x 1.60 GHz .)
> 
> However, the new WebUI CGI is partly missing German translations,
> and claims "Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) is not supported". The
> latter is confusing, as the system states the opposite.

This is what we get from the kernel.

> Talking about aesthetics, the CGI is a bit messy, but that
> is not a functionality problem and might be fixed in an upcoming
> update.

Yes I know. I mentioned I did this as quickly as possible to make the release. Please send in patches :)

-Michael

> 
> Thanks, and best regards,
> Peter Müller
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