(Jan 6) Thanks so much to Peter Smith for announcing on linuxsecurity.com the release of his Linux Network Security book available free online. In 2005 I wrote a book on Linux security. 8 years later and the publisher has gone out of business. Now that I’ …
Archive for January 7th, 2014
(Jan 3) Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.
(Jan 6) Puppet could be made to overwrite files.
(Jan 6) Updated ruby193-rubygem-actionpack packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat OpenStack 3.0. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having [More…]
(Jan 5) Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in uscan, a tool to scan upstream sits for new releases of packages, which is part of the devscripts package. An attacker controlling a website from which uscan would attempt to download a source tarball could execute arbitrary code [More…]
cPanel & WHM software version 11.36 will reach End of Life at the end of January 2014. In accordance with our EOL policy [http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/AllDocumentation/InstallationGuide/LongTermSupport],11.36 will continue functioning on servers after reaching EOL. However, no further updates, such as security fixes and installations, will be provided for 11.36 once it reaches …