<div dir="ltr">Hi<div><br></div><div>Over the weekend, SysOps updated our systems to patch against the Meltdown <span style="font-size:12.8px">vulnerability. We managed to patch over 250 systems. </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div>SysOps will continue to monitor these systems, as of now all systems are online and working as expected. <span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Please report any issues to </span><a href="http://pnthelp.redhat.com/" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">pnthelp.redhat.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:overpass,sans-serif;font-weight:bold;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:14px;text-transform:uppercase"><span>MARC</span> <span>RAAZ</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:overpass,sans-serif;font-size:10px;margin:0px 0px 4px;text-transform:uppercase"><span>ASSOCIATE MANAGER, SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:overpass,sans-serif;font-size:10px;margin:0px 0px 4px;text-transform:uppercase"><span>SYSOPS, PNT DEVOPS</span></p><p style="font-family:overpass,sans-serif;margin:0px;font-size:10px;color:rgb(153,153,153)"><a href="https://www.redhat.com/" style="color:rgb(0,136,206);margin:0px" target="_blank">Red Hat <span>QLD</span></a></p><span style="font-family:overpass,sans-serif;font-size:10px;margin:0px;color:rgb(153,153,153)"><p style="margin:0px">193 North Quay</p><p style="margin:0px">Brisbane QLD 4000</p></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:overpass,sans-serif;font-size:medium"></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:overpass,sans-serif;font-size:medium"></span><p style="font-family:overpass,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 6px;font-size:10px;color:rgb(153,153,153)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><a href="mailto:mraaz@redhat.com" style="color:rgb(0,136,206);margin:0px" target="_blank">mraaz@redhat.com</a> </span> <span>M: <a href="tel:+61429881988" style="color:rgb(0,136,206);font-size:11px;margin:0px" target="_blank">+61429881988</a> </span></p><table border="0" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:overpass,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><tbody><tr><td width="100px"><a href="https://red.ht/sig" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.redhat.com/files/brand/email/sig-redhat.png" width="90" height="auto"></a></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> <br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 10:44 AM, Marc Raaz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mraaz@redhat.com" target="_blank">mraaz@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>This weekend SysOps will be patching our internal systems against the Meltdown vulnerability. At this time, patches are only available for RHEL kernel and Red Hat OpenStack. Unfortunately, in order to fully mitigate both Spectre and Meltdown, SysOps will need to do multiple rounds of updates requiring several outages over the next coming weeks.</div><div><br></div><div>This weekend’s maintenance will be the first round of updates to patch for the Meltdown vulnerability.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>We will utilize the previously advertised /mnt/redhat outage window for this work: 8:00 AM US EST (13:00 UTC) Friday January 12 to 8:00 AM US EST (13:00 UTC) Saturday January 13.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>As mentioned in the official documentation [1], [2], these patches may impact performance. We will be applying known fixes if we encounter any issues. Once the maintenance window is over, please report any issues to <a href="http://pnthelp.redhat.com" target="_blank">pnthelp.redhat.com</a>.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>[1] - <a href="https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/speculativeexecution" target="_blank">https://access.redhat.com/<wbr>security/vulnerabilities/<wbr>speculativeexecution</a></div><div>[2] - <a href="https://access.redhat.com/articles/3307751" target="_blank">https://access.redhat.com/<wbr>articles/3307751</a></div><div><br></div><div><div class="m_5304015502552959151gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:overpass,sans-serif;font-weight:bold;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:14px;text-transform:uppercase"><span>MARC</span> <span>RAAZ</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:overpass,sans-serif;font-size:10px;margin:0px 0px 4px;text-transform:uppercase"><span>ASSOCIATE MANAGER, SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:overpass,sans-serif;font-size:10px;margin:0px 0px 4px;text-transform:uppercase"><span>SYSOPS, PNT DEVOPS</span></p><p style="font-family:overpass,sans-serif;margin:0px;font-size:10px;color:rgb(153,153,153)"><a href="https://www.redhat.com/" style="color:rgb(0,136,206);margin:0px" target="_blank">Red Hat <span>QLD</span></a></p><span style="font-family:overpass,sans-serif;font-size:10px;margin:0px;color:rgb(153,153,153)"><p style="margin:0px">193 North Quay</p><p style="margin:0px">Brisbane QLD 4000</p></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:overpass,sans-serif;font-size:medium"></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:overpass,sans-serif;font-size:medium"></span><p style="font-family:overpass,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 6px;font-size:10px;color:rgb(153,153,153)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><a href="mailto:mraaz@redhat.com" style="color:rgb(0,136,206);margin:0px" target="_blank">mraaz@redhat.com</a> </span> <span>M: <a href="tel:+61429881988" style="color:rgb(0,136,206);font-size:11px;margin:0px" target="_blank">+61429881988</a> </span></p><table border="0" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:overpass,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><tbody><tr><td width="100px"><a href="https://red.ht/sig" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.redhat.com/files/brand/email/sig-redhat.png" width="90" height="auto"></a></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </blockquote></div><br></div>