A 30 second guide to manually patching the OMIGOD vulnerability (September 2021) in Azure-hosted Linux Virtual Machines. In September 2021 Microsoft released patches to protect against a vulnerability in the “Open Management Infrastructure” (OMI) package often installed on Linux VMs, particularly those hosted in Azure. …

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Ubuntu 16.04 is going End Of Life at the end of April 2021, so without a paid-for subscription there won’t be any new security updates. We can use a couple of methods in PowerShell to list affected VMs in a tenancy. Method 1: Image-based Virtual machines VMs built from images are the easier target - we can quickly look …

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