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OVH reveals semi-secret plan to fix critical Januscape bug with mass reboots – and an Australian crash-test dummy
OVH used its Sydney datacenter to test a fix for the critical Januscape KVM vulnerability, which allows attackers to escape guest VMs and compromise host systems. The company opted for mass reboots of hosts after backporting a Debian-based patch, prioritizing security over individual customer downtime.
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