<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Update to these reboots:</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 have completed around 56% of our reboots as of today. We will pause most of the reboots over the weekend. We have finished rebooting all of the public facing servers which had the largest potential risk. Most of the remaining systems are not public facing and should pose a low risk until we get to them.</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 will resume the rebooting on Monday during normal business hours.</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 for your patience for any outages related to this!</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 4:22 PM Lance Albertson <<a href="mailto:lance@osuosl.org">lance@osuosl.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><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/" target="_blank">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/" target="_blank">https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/863729/7e2658520aaec137/</a></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><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>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="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>