Over the past weeks multiple vulnerabilities were published that can affect VPS users on our platform. These recent vulnerabilities (Copy Fail, Dirty Frag and Fragnesia) were all so-called privilege escalation bugs, where people who already had some type of access could expand that beyond their intended rights. All of these vulnerabilities are now patched in the newest kernels.
We are writing this blogpost to provide a bit of background on such vulnerabilities, and the responsibilities involved.
The current fix
The vulnerability existed in the kernel of Linux. We patched these kernels as...
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