OK, so a bunch of engineers have been told to drop everything to patch this. Maybe work weekends, (hopefully not) provide hourly updates on their work, etc. I d

OK, so a bunch of engineers have been told to drop everything to patch this. Maybe work weekends, (hopefully not) provide hourly updates on their work, etc. I don't see fixing this as entirely tricky; the patch looks to be a few lines of code. Then it's over to testing for a short run, and the release team will be running around informing vendors in order of importance and then updating https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog, which incidentally hasn't changed yet (it will be interesting to see when this happens / how long it takes). So that's the on-the-ground mess that's been made. It's annoying, but not the end of the world, so concentrating only on the lowest level is arguably a distraction from the bigger picture - which is impacted by all such events as this.