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hoffieon Red Hat confirms security incident after hackers breach GitLab instance

There seems to be an official statement by Red Hat now: https://access.redhat.com/articles/7132207

hoffieon BorgBackup: Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption

> we would need need to recover disk partitions/LVM metadata, boot records, etc. as well as all the data itself.

While other suggested, image-based solutions better fit your bit-for-bit requirement, you might also be interested in ReaR: https://relax-and-recover.org/

ReaR generates a bootable image which performs all that basic partitioning and is able to trigger an actual system/application data file restore using a variety of tools (including borg).

hoffieon SACK Panic – Multiple TCP-based remote denial-of-service issues

Red Hat's article on these issues also provides further explanations: https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/tcpsack

hoffieon Kernel Side-Channel Attacks

I think this is related to kpatch only being available as of RHEL 7.2 [1] in general. In other words, this must not necessarily be caused by any specifics of the current kernel patches.

[1] https://access.redhat.com/articles/2475321#scope