Recently, Intel CPU underlying loopholes in the hubbub, derived from the security issues have spread very extensive, almost all of the mobile phones, computers and cloud computing products will be affected.
Involved systems include Windows, Linux, macOS, Amazon AWS, Google Android; hardware platform, in addition to Intel processors, ARM Cortex-A architecture and AMD processors will also receive some influence.
Meltdown (fusing) and specter (ghost) two security loopholes in the incident 'culprit' Meltdown can allow low-privilege, user-level applications to "cross-border" access to system-wide memory, resulting in data breaches, while Specter can fool the security checker to allow applications to access arbitrary memory locations.
Today noon, Tencent cloud official released an important notice, announced Tencent cloud platform security upgrade on January 10.
Tencent cloud said in a notice, recently, In order to solve this security problem, Tencent Cloud will post the hardware platform and virtualization platform by hot upgrade technology from 01: 00-05: 00 in Beijing time on January 10, 2018, End repair, client business will not be affected.
In addition, for a very small number of servers that do not support the hot upgrade mode, Tencent Cloud arranges time to manually restart the repair. This part of the server, the Tencent cloud security team, will notify separately to negotiate the upgrade time. Users are advised to ensure that the contact information is reserved (cell phones, Mail), at the same time in advance to prepare data backup solutions and business maintenance plans.
The following is the text of Tencent cloud notice:
In recent days, Intel processors have been detonated serious chip-level security issues, in order to solve the security issues, Tencent cloud will be January 01, 2018 Beijing time 01: 00-05: 00 by thermal upgrade technology on the hardware platform and virtualization platform Back-end repair, customer service will not be affected.
For a very small number of servers that do not support the hot upgrade mode, Tencent Cloud arranges time manually to restart the repair. This part of the server Tencent Cloud Security Team will notify separately to negotiate the upgrade time. It is suggested that users ensure that the contact information is reserved (mobile phone, email address) , At the same time in advance to prepare data backup solutions and business maintenance plans.
Please pay attention to the details Tencent cloud notice, thank you for your understanding and support!
