was about to download and install Ubuntu a week or so ago, then Spectre and Meltdown issues came to the fore and I decided to wait. Will the LTS ISO image available for download be patched? If so, I'd prefer to wait for a short while until that happens. If it's not going to be patched, and I install from the LTS iso downloaded from Ubuntu site, will the update come automatically, or will I be on a learning curve to manually update? Thanks
Any questions relating to status updates, or asking if anything is going to be patched for these vulnerabilities should be closed as duplicates of this question.    are in the news right now and sound pretty severe. I don't see any security updates from Ubuntu that cover these vulnerabilities.  What is Ubuntu doing about these vulnerabilities, and what should Ubuntu users be doing?  These are CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715 and CVE-2017-5754.
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