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These bugs are probably most valuable against cloud providers (Where else do you get arbitrary code execution on a machine with other's valuable data on it?). M
by loosescrews 9y ago
These bugs are probably most valuable against cloud providers (Where else do you get arbitrary code execution on a machine with other's valuable data on it?). Most cloud providers run Linux, not Microsoft (except Microsoft) and definitely not Apple.
- guscost 9y agoMicrosoft also runs the second largest cloud provider in the world.
- foobarian 9y agoThe problem is that even if there is no practical exploit, you still have to patch. At our web company where there are no shared boxes we still spent untold resources upgrading kernels, rebooting servers, and then lost capacity due to performance degradations. Infrastructure is normally patched and rebooted on a regular schedule, but when a bug like this hits and requires an off-cycle upgrade it's a big cost.
- gopalakrishnans 9y agoMicrosoft does have a lot of Linux VMs https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/virtual-machines/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/virtual-machines/
- loosescrews 9y agoWhat matters is the host OS, not the guest.