Because the security world loves catchy names almost as much as it loves ruining a perfectly good week, we have two new vulnerabilities to bring to your attention: CopyFail and DirtyFrag. While they sound like a forgotten 90s hacker movie duo, they are very real, and your cloud servers need an update to stay secure.
How to Mitigate: Please update your Research Developer Cloud instances at your earliest convenience. You have two paths to a clean bill of health:
* The Fresh Start (New Images): We have already created and deployed shiny new, pre-patched images. You can simply spin up new instances using these mitigated images and migrate your workloads over. * The Hands-On Approach (Patch In-Place): If you prefer to keep your current instances running, please apply the recommended OS-level updates and mitigations directly to your existing servers. See links to relevant information below.
Need a hand? If things go sideways during the update, or if you just need some assistance navigating the mitigations, our support team is ready to help. Please reach out to us!
Stay secure (and un-fragged), REANNZ Advanced Computing Team
This scheduled maintenance affects: Flexible High Performance Cloud Services (Virtual Compute Service, Bare Metal Compute Service) and Flexible High Performance Cloud.