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Reboot of Purple Server

17 November 2017 at 09:46 UTC

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The Purple server will be rebooted Saturday between 21:00 and 23:59 UTC on Sat 18th Nov 2017 to load new a new kernel.

This update patched a vulnerability that meant that a local attacker could escalate their privileges on the system.

The outage should only last around 5 minutes while the systems reboots.

Update: 21:17 - This work has now been completed without incident.

Last updated: 06 November 2024 at 17:07 UTC