[LON-CAPA-admin] linux.slapper notice
Scott Harrison
sharrison at users.sourceforge.net
Tue Sep 17 13:24:17 EDT 2002
Dear All:
If you haven't upgraded your RPMs in the last two months, you
face vulnerability to the linux.slapper.worm (which, speaking
from experience, is attacking everywhere hard this week).
"it exploits a buffer overflow
vulnerability within OpenSSL, often used in Apache Web servers"
http://www.informationweek.com/news/IWK20020916S0001
To upgrade your RPMs:
* checkout/update the latest loncapa from CVS or the website (unstable)
* cd loncapa/loncom/build
* perl CHECKRPMS --download; cd /tmp/loncapa_rpm_updates; rpm -Fvh *.rpm
* If you are running lilo, you likely need to double check kernel version
rpm -q kernel
/etc/lilo.conf
and run
/sbin/lilo -v
More info on manual kernel upgrades is at:
http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/howto/kernel-upgrade/
Regards,
Scott
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Scott Harrison, sharrison at users.sourceforge.net
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