Facility News

Dear de.NBI Cloud Tübingen Users,

Unfortunately, our dashboard page (https://denbi.uni-tuebingen.de/) was temporarily unavailable around 5:00 p.m. Your virtual machines were not affected. We have already identified the issue and implemented a solution; the dashboard is now accessible again. … Read more...

Dear de.NBI Cloud Tübingen users,

information about another Linux kernel LPE was released: https://github.com/V4bel/dirtyfrag,
which is very similar to the Copy Fail vulnerability:

Your systems are especially vulnerabale if you have (less trustworthy) local users (like in a Slurm c… Read more...

Dear de.NBI Cloud Users,

We would like to inform you that services are now back up and running.
It should be safe to start your VMs again. If you encounter any issues, please contact us via the ticket system.
We apologize for any inconvenience caused.

Best regards,
de.NBI Clo… Read more...

Dear de.NBI Cloud Tübingen users,

following up on the "[de.NBI Cloud Tuebingen Production] Security Warning - Copy Fail Vulnerability" mail last Thursday, we want to announce a maintenance today at 1PM CEST. Your Virtual Machines (VMs) will not be reachable for a short amount of time, but th… Read more...

Dear de.NBI Cloud Tübingen users,

researchers discovered another Local Privilege Escalation vulnerability referred to as _Copy Fail_ (CVE-2026-31431) which affects recent, unpatched Linux kernels.
As far as we know only rolling release Linux distribution have patched kernels yet.

S… Read more...