Ubuntu 17.10 and Lenovo bug question

[kacpertopolnicki]

Hi. I'm running Ubuntu 17.04 on a Lenovo ThinkPad T570 and want to upgrade to 17.10.
With the news about the Lenovo bug I want to be very careful.

Is this upgrade now safe?

I see that Ubuntu released the download of 17.10.1 with the
Lenovo bug (I guess) fixed. I suppose that If I want to be extra cautious I could create
a live-usb with the fixed (17.10.1) ISO, boot from usb and update the system.
Is this overkill, or is it now safe to just run the upgrade directly from my system (17.04)?

[Bashing-om]

kacpertopolnicki ; Hello - Welcome to the forum ,

Yes - all good now:


<ubottu> The original release of Ubuntu 17.10 contained a bug that makes firmware memory read-only. See
https://pad.lv/1734147 for more info. This bug has been fixed in 17.10's repositories (so upgrades are safe) and
new ISOs have been released (look for 17.10.1 in the filename).



happy trails to you

[kacpertopolnicki]

Thanks for the quick reply Bashing-om!