AWS EC2 us-west-2 reboot

Wed Oct 1 20:29:09 UTC 2014

On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 11:01:37AM -0700, Grant Ridder wrote:
> For those interested, this is the Xen bug they were fixing with the reboots
> http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-108.html

Ouch.  Good thing Bashpocalypse is still capturing everyone's attention...

Interestingly, Amazon *didn't* discover this bug, which makes one wonder why
they, out of all the big Xen-based providers out there, got a heads-up in
advance of the embargo end.  If I was a big provider who didn't get advance
notice, I'd be somewhat miffed.

- Matt

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