Tübingen

[de.NBI Cloud Tuebingen Production] Security Warning - Copy Fail Vulnerability

30.04.2026 - 11:00
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.

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[de.NBI Cloud Tuebingen Production] network maintenance successful

29.04.2026 - 15:00
Dear de.NBI Cloud Tübingen users,

the maintenance was successful and the IPv6 records of our public service endpoints are now active.
Our own extended testing revealed no problems.
Should you experience problems (which we might not be able to simulate/detect), please tell us and we'll … Read more...

[de.NBI Cloud Tuebingen Production] network maintenance

28.04.2026 - 17:24
Dear de.NBI Cloud Tübingen users,

tomorrow (Wed) at 2.30pm we plan to add IPv6 records for our public service endpoints.
This mostly affects Openstack (access and login) and S3.
Your VMs and all internal operations should be unaffected.

We tested and coordinated this as far as p… Read more...

[de.NBI Cloud Tuebingen Production] Security Warning - Pack2TheRoot

28.04.2026 - 14:22
Dear de.NBI Cloud Tübingen users,

the Telekom Security team has found a Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability called Pack2TheRoot (CVE-2026-41651) which affects almost all common Linux distributions.

See https://github.security.telekom.com/2026/04/pack2theroot-linux-local-privilege… Read more...

[de.NBI Cloud Tuebingen Production]

21.04.2026 - 14:42
Dear de.NBI Cloud users,

we are postponeing the VPN (wireguard) server vpn2.denbi.uni-tuebingen.de (193.196.29.66) shutdown to Thu afternoon.
The service was deployed for providing IPv4 to IPv6 tunneling from remote locations that do not support the latter.

As mentioned before:
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