About the handling of embargoed security issues
TL; DR: Flatcar is safe against recent OpenSSL vulnerabilities
With the recent OpenSSL vulnerabilities CVE-2022-3786 and CVE-2022-3602 , the Flatcar team has provided as soon as possible a batch of releases for impacted Flatcar channels (all except LTS which is not impacted). Releases have been published within one hour after the official public announcement and users were able to secure their workloads almost immediately without unexpected turbulences as the releases included only minimal changes to address the security issues.
