WordPress 3.8.2 is now available. This is an important security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately. This releases fixes a weakness that could let an attacker force their way into your site by forging authentication cookies. This was discovered and fixed by Jon Cave of the WordPress […]
Archive for April, 2014
Half a million widely trusted websites vulnerable to Heartbleed bug
A serious overrun vulnerability in the
OpenSSL cryptographic library affects around 17% of SSL web servers which use certificates issued by trusted certificate authorities. Already commonly known as the
Heartbleed bug, a missing bounds check in the handling of the TLS heartbeat extension can allow remote attackers to view up to 64 kilobytes of memory on an […]
SUMMARY cPanel, Inc. has released EasyApache 3.24.15 with FCGI version 2.3.9 and PHP versions 5.5.10 and 5.4.27. This release addresses the FCGI vulnerability CVE-2013-4365 with fixes to a possible heap buffer overwrite issue, and the PHP vulnerability CVE-2013-7345 with fixes to bugs in the fileinfo module. We encourage all FCGI …
What’s Changed
[+] Service nodes can be deployed on CloudLinux.
[+] A new utility, called sync_resource_usage, is available for synchronizing information about resource usage between the Server Administration Panel and Hosting Panel.
[+] The hostname utility can update the host names of service nodes in PPA.
[+] During migration from Plesk or Plesk Expand to PPA 11.5, providers can keep their existing SmarterMail servers and connect them to PPA as service nodes.
[*] Migration of a large number of sites now takes less time.
[*] The stability of the migration tool was improved.
[*] The algorithm of service node selection for hosting Microsoft SQL Server databases was improved.
[*] Localization was updated for the following languages: German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Italian, Russian, Chinese simplified, and Chinese traditional.
[*] The calculation of hosted domains for licensing purposes was improved: now only physically hosted sites are counted.
[-] In some cases, the screens of Hosting Panel were not shown in full in Internet Explorer. (PPA-159)
[-] Dr.Web license keys could not be renewed automatically. (PPA-474)
[-] Users could not back up their subscriptions. Scheduled backups also did not work. (PPA-753)
[-] The daily maintenance task stalled during the calculation of disk space usage statistics. (PPA-805)
[-] Migration from Plesk 8 to PPA failed with the error “Error: Table ‘psa.horde.turba_objects’ doesn’t exist”. (PPA-822)
[-] Changing resource limits on a subscription could cause undesirable changes to website hosting settings. (PPA-13)
[-] FTP users could not be restored from backups created on IIS service nodes. (PPA-36)
[-] Users could not see log files for add-on domains in the Hosting Panel. (PPA-501)
[-] Administrators could not manage Microsoft SQL Server databases through Infrastructure > Database Servers > DB Webadmin. Wrong database administration tool was opened.(PPA-594)
[-] Domain forwarding configured by customers on webspaces could be reset to web hosting service after administrators or resellers changed the resource limits in the corresponding service template. (PPA-636)
[-] After upgrading from PPA 11.1 to 11.5, custom ProFTPD configurations were discarded and the operation of FTP server was disrupted. (PPA-646)
[-] Terminated license keys for Dr.Web could not be unassigned from service nodes. (PPA-724)
[-] Enabling of Apache service on PPA backup nodes could disrupt the operation of ProFTPD. (PPA-795)
[-] Webspace provisioning failed on Windows nodes with the error “SIDClient error: Unable to release input thread stack”. (PPA-853)
[-] Migration from H-Sphere could fail if the migration tool was run with the “set-dns-forwarding” option. (PPA-790)
[-] Migration from H-Sphere could fail if the SSH key access was used and the H-Sphere node was missing from the list of known hosts. (PPA-777)
[-] Users could not migrate from Plesk for Windows to PPA 11.5 if the destination service node in PPA was running Windows 2012 R2 with German locale. (PPA-751)
[-] Users could not migrate to PPA 11.5 if PPA used an external Microsoft SQL Server (which was added through Infrastructure > Database Servers). (PPA-771)
[-] Users could not transfer the contents of databases from H-Sphere to PPA if the administrator’s password for the destination MySQL server contained a bracket symbol ({). (PPA-774)
[-] Users could not upgrade the migration tool by using the command installer.sh –upgrade. (PPA-749)
[-] During migration from H-Sphere, user names were incorrectly transferred to PPA. (PPA-814)
[-] The migration tool showed error messages while migrating suspended subscriptions in multiple-webspace mode (“transfer-domains-to-subscription: same” in config.ini). (PPA-779)
[-] Migration from Expand installations with centralized mail could produce warning messages about duplicate domain administrator roles. (PPA-848)
Thousands of websites still hosted on Windows XP
Thousands of websites are still hosted on Windows XP computers, despite the operating system reaching the end of its extended support period today.
(Apr 5) Security Report Summary
(Apr 5) Security Report Summary
(Apr 7) File could be made to crash if it processed a specially crafted file.
(Apr 7) PHP could be made to crash if it processed a specially crafted file.
Red Hat: 2014:0355-01: ruby193-libyaml: Important Advisory
(Apr 2) Updated ruby193-libyaml packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Software Collections 1. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having [More…]
Red Hat: 2014:0364-01: ruby193-libyaml: Important Advisory
(Apr 3) Updated ruby193-libyaml packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 3.0. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having [More…]
Red Hat: 2014:0365-01: python-django-horizon: Moderate Advisory
(Apr 3) Updated python-django-horizon packages that fix one security issue and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 3.0. [More…]
Red Hat: 2014:0366-01: openstack-nova: Moderate Advisory
(Apr 3) Updated openstack-nova packages that fix three security issues and one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 3.0. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Moderate [More…]
Red Hat: 2014:0367-01: openstack-swift: Moderate Advisory
(Apr 3) Updated openstack-swift packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 3.0. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Moderate [More…]
Red Hat: 2014:0368-01: openstack-keystone: Moderate Advisory
(Apr 3) Updated openstack-keystone packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 3.0. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Moderate [More…]
Debian: 2891-3: mediawiki, mediawiki-extensions: Summary
(Apr 4) Security Report Summary
(Apr 2) NSS could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.
Red Hat: 2014:0369-01: httpd: Moderate Advisory
(Apr 3) Updated httpd packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Moderate [More…]
Red Hat: 2014:0370-01: httpd: Moderate Advisory
(Apr 3) Updated httpd packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Moderate [More…]
The website of the Agency for the Safety of Aerial Navigation in Africa and Madagascar (ASECNA) has been hijacked by hackers. Browsing to the site’s homepage currently presents visitors with a PayPal phishing site, where visitors are asked to submit PayPal account details, including their password, address and credit card details. After entering these details, victims are redirected to the real PayPal website.
End of the Road for FrontPage Installations: What to Expect
The end of Microsoft® FrontPage® Extensions installations on cPanel & WHM servers is quickly approaching. FrontPage support has already been removed in EasyApache version 3.24.1 and up and cPanel & WHM will be FrontPage-free by version 11.46, which is currently slated for a Fall 2014 release. cPanel & WHM version 11.44 (scheduled for a …
The Joomla! Project is pleased to announce the availability of Joomla! CMS 3.3 Beta 1. Community members are asked to download and install the package in order to provide quality assurance for the forthcoming 3.3 release, which is scheduled for release on or around April 22nd, 2014.
A big thank you goes out to everyone that contributed to the 3.3 release! Joomla! CMS 3.3 will be our most stable release ever. Right now we’re at about 290 commits since 3.2.3’s release with 39 different people contributing to those commits (not including testers and other non-coding activities). Best of all is that the new features are awesome!
The 3.x release series is the latest major release of the Joomla! CMS, with 3.3 the fourth standard-term support release in this series. Please note that going from 3.2 to 3.3 is a one-click upgrade and is NOT a migration. The same is true is for any subsequent versions in the 3.x series of the CMS. That being said, please do not upgrade any of your production sites to the beta version as beta is ONLY intended for testing and there is no upgrade path from Beta.
Ubuntu: 2161-1: libyaml-libyaml-perl vulnerabilities
(Apr 3) libyaml-libyaml-perl could be made to crash or run programs if it opened aspecially crafted YAML file.
(Apr 3) LibYAML could be made to crash or run programs if it opened a speciallycrafted YAML document.
Red Hat: 2014:0353-01: libyaml: Important Advisory
(Apr 2) Updated libyaml packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 3. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having [More…]
Red Hat: 2014:0354-01: libyaml: Important Advisory
(Apr 2) Updated libyaml packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having [More…]
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PPA migration tools for Parallels Plesk Expand 2.x, Helm4 and Plesk Panel 8.6.x, 9.x
Announcing availability of migration tools for Parallels Plesk Expand 2.x, Helm4 and Parallels Plesk Panel 8.6.x and 9.x
– Migration from: Parallels Expand 2.x, Parallels Plesk Panel 8.6.x, 9.x
– Migration to: Parallels Plesk Automation 11.5
– What’s migrated: accounts, web, DB, mail, DNS
With the new migration tools, the time to migrate to Parallels Plesk Automation is here!
The following component was updated:
[+]Plesk is now available in the following additional languages: Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, and Ukrainian. In Plesk for Linux, you need to activate them in Tools & Settings > Languages.
The following issues were resolved:
[-] (Windows only) Administrators were unable to use SmarterMail version earlier than 10.5 as a mail server. (PPPM-1521)
[-] (Linux only) Users could not see subscription backups if their usernames coincided with their domain names. (PPPM-1445)
[-] (Linux only) Subscriptions could not be migrated if the username of the customer who owned the subscription coincided with the domain name. (PPPM-1218)
Debian: 2891-2: mediawiki, mediawiki-extensions: Summary
(Mar 31) Security Report Summary