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Canonical Says Ubuntu Infrastructure Is Facing Cross-Border DDoS Attack (linuxiac.com)

submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@lemy.lol to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] lengau@midwest.social 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 5 points 1 week ago

Even then, some of the upstream LTS kernels didn't get the patch until the 30th.