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I manage a bare metal server rented at OVH, and when I discovered their kernel wasn't the stock one, I also found its last update was months before, without all
by pietroalbini 10y ago
I manage a bare metal server rented at OVH, and when I discovered their kernel wasn't the stock one, I also found its last update was months before, without all the security patches released since then.
That's not advertised at all in their product pages, and it exposes you to a bunch of security issues elsewhere fixed.
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- skrowl 10y agoTo be fair, that's just the default setup. It's 2 commands to update it to the normal stock kernel.
- pietroalbini 10y agoI know and I did that as soon as I discovered they ship a different kernel. The problem is they don't advertise "we ship an insecure kernel by default", and they call those insecure images "Ubuntu".
- Raed667 10y agoMay I ask what are those 2 steps?
- jajern 10y agosudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
- pietroalbini 10y agoThat wouldn't work (even if you should do that anyway). The stock kernel is in a separate package.
- pietroalbini 10y agoCheck out this post: http://www.sysadminworld.com/2012/how-to-switch-to-the-standard-ubuntu-kernel-on-ovh/ http://www.sysadminworld.com/2012/how-to-switch-to-the-stand...