Ubuntu Infrastructure Down for Over 24 Hours — Critical Root Vulnerability Hampers Communication
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Ars Technica reports that Ubuntu's infrastructure has been down for more than a day, hampering communication about a critical vulnerability that grants root access. The outage has affected Canonical's ability to coordinate disclosure and patching for the root-level security flaw, creating a compounding crisis where the infrastructure needed to communicate about the vulnerability is itself offline.