By EunTae Lee
Hello Digital Ocean Community -
I have done the following:
root@www:~# sed -i ‘s/GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="/GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="panic=5 /’ /etc/default/grub
root@www:~# grub-install /dev/vda
root@www:~# reboot
Is this SAFE for security bug if I do this before the patch?
Anyone know how I can fix this issue? Thank you in advance for any help!
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As I understand it, this issue can only be exploited with physical access to the machine. Since your droplets are only accessible in this fashion via the control panel’s console access when you are already authenticated on your DigitalOcean account it should not be a concern.
From my reading of the available fixes for this vulnerability, adding the panic option to your boot string should resolve it in any case.
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