Posted on March 9, 2022

Because a very nasty exploit has become known that could lead to privilege escalation, a kernel upgrade will be applied to all servers as soon as possible.

Because the exploit requires some sort of inside access to utilize, shell servers will be done first, then virtual private servers, and the rest. The physical machines will be done Friday evening between 11pm-midnight Pacific Standard Time (GMT-8). Most things will take about five minutes but the web server could possibly take much longer as it requires compiling special drivers for a special SSD device we have on that machine for fast database access.

This will affect all of our servers and services. But with the exception of the web all outages will be brief. Most of the work will be done during the evenings 10pm-2am Pacific Standard Time (GMT-8), especially shell servers and virtual private servers. This will impact all eskimo.com services including friendica.eskimo.com/, hubzilla.eskimo.com, nextcloud.eskimo.com, e-mail, shell servers, private virtual servers, and virtual domains.