January Intel Meltdown Patches

I got it!

No clue why this is what it took, or if there is a more direct way to run it:

wait bash -c "bash /tmp/spectre-meltdown-checker.sh > { pathname of folders "Logs" of folders "__Global" of data folders of client }/results_SH_spectre-meltdown-checker.txt"

Once i got that figured out, I could go back to this way, which is what i was going for in the first place:

wait bash -c "bash '{pathname of file "spectre-meltdown-checker.sh" of folder "__Download" of client folder of current site}' > '{ pathname of folders "Logs" of folders "__Global" of data folders of client }/results_SH_spectre-meltdown-checker.txt'"

Task:

Note: I make no claims about the validity or safety of the script this runs:

The script is hard coded to run this version of the script: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/speed47/spectre-meltdown-checker/dce917bfbb4fa5e135b7ed4c84881086766be802/spectre-meltdown-checker.sh

It will need updated as the script is updated, which is intentional so that the script can be validated and not change over time until such time as it can be revalidated at a new version. Running arbitrary code from GitHub without vetting / validation is not recommend.

Analysis:

By default the output of the script has coloring info, which gets picked by the analysis. The task would need adjusted to not provide the coloring info.

Right now the analysis just reads the raw lines of the results file. I haven’t enhanced it to pull out any specific info for reporting, but that is a possibility if I have a better picture of the different results. The extra colorization stuff in the output doesn’t help currently.