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AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot
- Subject: AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot
- From: shortdudey123 at gmail.com (Grant Ridder)
- Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2014 11:01:37 -0700
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <CAPiURgX51b3trghF7M916KQk3+fQcuR9C3qQTReQ5rbysHR=VQ@mail.gmail.com> <[email protected]> <CAPiURgXLpqX5msowQfUbqtXKtg3WxoH2gvc98DPmWuE-UTQn5Q@mail.gmail.com> <CA+M5dWb3F5e5avL976zptCkQXHrYC159dowth1uv9hfC+mpgew@mail.gmail.com> <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
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 at reedloden.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 21:39:39 -0400
> Peter Beckman <beckman at 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 can
> to
> > make invisible fixes with no customer impact, but sometimes a reboot is
> > required in order to apply the changes necessary to keep customer
> instances
> > safe 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
>