Date: Jan 4, 2017
Time: Ongoing
Purpose of Work:
Due to a recently discovered important vulnerability, codename Spectre and Meltdown, officially named CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715 and CVE-2017-5754, NewPush if performing emergency patching and maintenance until all of our managed servers are fully patched.
More information availabie on this vulnerability on the following site: https://spectreattack.com/
Impact of Work:
Due to the nature of the updates required, reboot of affected systems are required. As all systems running on modern processors are affected, all managed servers and services are affected. Expect short outages due to to the reboot of the servers, after the patching is completed.
Update 1-22-2017
During the last couple weeks, the majority of virtual machines and supporting infrastructure have been patched against the vulnerabilities, especially in all cases where the vendors released the patches needed to mitigate the vulnerabilities. As vendors releasing modified patches and new methods to mitigate the vulnerabilities, we continue to work to make sure our infrastructure remains safe. Until all vendors released all patches, the following issue remains open, and we might do maintenance work overnight if necessary, with as low impact as possible.
If you have any question related to your own infrastructure, regardless of it is shared or dedicated hosting, please do not hesitate to email our support team to give you the details ([email protected]).
