Xen security bug, you say? Amazon readies GLORIOUS GLOBAL CLOUD REBOOT

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Xen security bug, you say? Amazon readies GLORIOUS GLOBAL CLOUD REBOOT

Amazon will tomorrow begin a bloody global reboot of its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) compute instances after it found a security bug within the Xen virtualisation platform.

The rolling minutes-long reboots would be completed by 30 September. Amazon did not name the reason for the upgrade, widely thought to be a security issue affecting underlying hosts.

Tech site ITNews cited an unnamed source who said the reboot was due to an unspecified vulnerability in the open-source Xen-108 platform. Later, Xen and Amazon confirmed a fix for a non-disclosed security flaw is due to be released on October 1

Instance types including T1, T2, M2, R3, and HS1 were not affected. The reboots will occur during September 26 at 2:00 UTC/GMT (September 25, at 7:00 PM PDT) and ending on September 30, at 23:59 UTC/GMT (September 30, at 4:59 PM PDT).

 

[Sinbad]

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[ToxicBunny]

Another article on this issue : http://arstechnica.com/technopaedia...form-a-massive-reboot-of-ec2-to-fix-xen-flaw/

Amazon has started warning customers of its EC2 cloud computing platform that it's going to start rebooting their instances en masse over the next few days.

Not all EC2 instance types will need rebooting; the fast storage (HS1) and large memory (R3) virtual machines are unaffected. But the reboots will nonetheless be widespread, with all regions and all availability zones affected. Rebooting is due to start this evening and finish next Tuesday.

Amazon hasn't explained why the bulk reboot is needed, but a source speaking to ITNews has said that it's due to an embargoed flaw in the Xen hypervisor. That bug, XSA-108, is due to be publicly disclosed on October 1, by which time Amazon's reboot should be complete.

 

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no post for it.

Xen security bug, you say? Amazon readies GLORIOUS GLOBAL CLOUD REBOOT

Amazon will tomorrow begin a bloody global reboot of its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) compute instances after it found a security bug within the Xen virtualisation platform.

The rolling minutes-long reboots would be completed by 30 September. Amazon did not name the reason for the upgrade, widely thought to be a security issue affecting underlying hosts.

Tech site ITNews cited an unnamed source who said the reboot was due to an unspecified vulnerability in the open-source Xen-108 platform. Later, Xen and Amazon confirmed a fix for a non-disclosed security flaw is due to be released on October 1

Instance types including T1, T2, M2, R3, and HS1 were not affected. The reboots will occur during September 26 at 2:00 UTC/GMT (September 25, at 7:00 PM PDT) and ending on September 30, at 23:59 UTC/GMT (September 30, at 4:59 PM PDT).

Please quote your source. Otherwise it looks like plagiarism.