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Well, That Wasn't Fun: October 16 '26

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Fly.io's Daniel Botha describes how the company patched and rebooted its entire fleet on October 16, 2026, in response to Linux kernel bug CVE-2026-99999, a flaw in IPv4 checksum offload handling that let guests manipulate host packet headers and leak memory.

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