Second Life Open: Outage Recap

At approximately midnight this morning (last night?), we began a rolling update to help counteract the self-replicating object attacks which had plagued us throughout yesterday afternoon/evening.

Unfortunately, during the course of the update, we discovered that it included a bug which caused objects purchased in-world to be fully permissive.

After we reproduced the bug in-world, we kicked everyone off the grid and restricted login to Lindens only (this was at 2am PST). Next, we identified the bug and created a fix for it, which was deployed and tested while the grid was down.

The code we rolled out this morning includes additional security protocol, which in addition to the changes going into the next release on Wednesday should help reduce these types of grid attacks in the future. Thank you all again for your patience and support throughout the night.

Several people have asked for clarification on the permissions bug and I apologize that it wasn't clear from the initial post. Part of the rollout last night involved inventory transformation to help repair permissions on most of the objects purchased with the permissions bug. Given the nature of the bug, it is hard for us to determine if everything was transformed or not, but it should have captured most of the affected objects.