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Canonical Says Ubuntu Infrastructure Is Facing Cross-Border DDoS Attack (linuxiac.com)
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[–] 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Normally patches roll out before the vulnerability is disclosed. But I honestly don't know the status on CopyFail

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Most distros delivered patched kernels well before the vulnerability was publicly disclosed. Not sure if Ubuntu did but they had ample time to do so.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Not true. None of the major distros were alerted and Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL, etc. were all struggling at the last minute. See: https://infosec.exchange/@wdormann/116489443704631952

    However, none of those DDoS's took out the archive servers, so Ubuntu users could still get new kernels.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Interesting. So only the fast distros were done patching by time of disclosure. The ones you wouldn't run a server on. Because only the kernel devs better informed. That's... pretty amateurish from the guys who discovered CopyFail.

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