[LON-CAPA-admin] linux.slapper notice

[Lars Jensen]

Hi Scott,

Isn't check-rpms -v the recommended way to check your RPMs?

Lars.

On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Scott Harrison wrote:

> 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
> 
> -- 
> Scott Harrison, sharrison at users.sourceforge.net
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