Scheduled restart of the complete infrastructure and its VM's Thursday 4th January 2018 14:00:00

Due to updates of the servers caused by resent bug report ( CVE-2017-5715 / CVE-2017-5753 / CVE-2017-5754) , a restart is required. This restart will be performed during the day and will cause all VM's to be off-line during the time of the restart.

• Scheduled date: 2018-01-07
• Scheduled start time: approx. 12:00
• Expected duration: approx. 23:00

The exact date and time will be set soon. To follow the progress of the scheduled maintenance, visit https://status.cm.tinned-software.net/.

The reported bugs are referenced as F**CKWIT, aka KAISER, aka KPTI, aka Meltdown, aka Spectre, aka The Intel Bug. Details about the bugs and there mitigation can be found on the following websites.

Further details about the bug(s):

• https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/speculativeexecution
• https://meltdownattack.com/
• https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.co.at/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html
• https://www.imore.com/meltdown-spectre-faq

Further details about the for the mitigation:

• https://lwn.net/Articles/738975/
• https://access.redhat.com/articles/3307751

2018-01-07 17:41: Beginning to restart servers. 2018-01-07 22:13: Finished restarting servers. Initial service check finished.