<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">All,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">As many of you may have heard about, there's a new major kernel vulnerability called Sequoia [1][2] that was announced a few days ago. Due to the nature of this, we're going to be rebooting many of our systems over the next 24-48 hours which may impact our services. We're going to do our best to minimize the impact, however it's also important that we get these fixes in place.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">We recommend all of our users to update their systems and reboot to a kernel that has the fix applied ASAP if possible. If you need any additional help, please let us know.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">We'll send another email once we've completed the reboots or if we run into a major outage that will cause an issue. You can also reach us on #osuosl on LiberaChat if you have any urgent issues or questions.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks-</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">[1] <a href="https://lwn.net/ml/oss-security/20210720123335.GA19170@localhost.localdomain/">https://lwn.net/ml/oss-security/20210720123335.GA19170@localhost.localdomain/</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">[2] <a href="https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/863729/7e2658520aaec137/">https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/863729/7e2658520aaec137/</a></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Lance Albertson</font><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Director</font></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Oregon State University | </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Open Source Lab </span></div></div></div></div></div>