On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 21:39:39 -0400 Peter Beckman <beck...@angryox.com> wrote:
> Likely some sort of potentially serious bug or flaw in EC2 or Xen. AWS > Security is really on the ball on such things and do everything they can to > make invisible fixes with no customer impact, but sometimes a reboot is > required in order to apply the changes necessary to keep customer instances > safe from attacks and vulnerabilities. Rumor mill is that it's XSA-108, embargoed until 2014-10-01 12:00 (http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/). Just somebody's guess, though, afaik. ~reed