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What’s the status of CopyFail patches in shared hosts?

Posted on May 10, 2026

I’m not 100% sure how the shared hosts work at DO, but having recently read about the new CopyFail exploit, I wondered if it was enough for me to update my own kernels, or if DO needs to do something at a lower level.



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