Re: [bitfolk] Security reboot needed, likely to be weekend …

On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 07:03:45PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm afraid there's another round of security updates needed as a
> flaw has been discovered in some (Xen-specific) parts of the Linux
> kernel.
>
> It's not the hypervisor this time but it still needs a kernel
> upgrade on our side so the effect is basically the same, so there
> will be another reboot of all servers, likely in the early hours (UK
> time) of 11–13 August.
>
> Customers will soon receive an individual email confirming the
> hour-long maintenance window specific to their server(s). The actual
> work is expected to take 10–30 minutes within that window.
>
> As before we should be able to do a suspend/restore if you have
> enabled that at:
>

>     <https://panel.bitfolk.com/account/config/>

Am I right in thinking this is a risk for those of us who are foolishly
up to date with our debian, as I don't think the fixed kernel package
has released yet?

Michael