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Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot
From: Grant Ridder <shortdudey123 () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 11:01:37 -0700
For those interested, this is the Xen bug they were fixing with the reboots http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-108.html -Grant On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Reed Loden <reed () reedloden com> wrote:
On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 21:39:39 -0400 Peter Beckman <beckman () angryox com> wrote:Likely some sort of potentially serious bug or flaw in EC2 or Xen. AWS Security is really on the ball on such things and do everything they cantomake invisible fixes with no customer impact, but sometimes a reboot is required in order to apply the changes necessary to keep customerinstancessafe from attacks and vulnerabilities.Rumor mill is that it's XSA-108, embargoed until 2014-10-01 12:00 (http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/). Just somebody's guess, though, afaik. ~reed
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- Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot Grant Ridder (Oct 01)
- Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot Matt Palmer (Oct 01)
- Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot Bryan Fullerton (Oct 01)
- Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot Todd Underwood (Oct 01)
- Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot Jeff Fisher (Oct 01)
- Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot Jared Mauch (Oct 01)
- Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot Bryan Fullerton (Oct 01)
- Re: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot Matt Palmer (Oct 01)