[Hampshire] O'Reilly User Group Newsletter Winter 2015

2015-01-29 Thread Tim Brocklehurst
Hi guys, I thought the message below might be of interest to some. Cheers, Tim B. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: O'Reilly User Group Newsletter Winter 2015 Date: Thursday 29 January 2015, 19:02:07 From: O'Reilly UK To: chair...@hants.lug.org.uk View this email in your bro

Re: [Hampshire] Patch your Linux systems ("Ghost" vulnerability CVE-2015-0235)

2015-01-29 Thread Gordon Scott
On Thu, 2015-01-29 at 16:01 +, Alan Pope wrote: > Modern Ubuntu (and thus Mint) was unaffected. Hm, I stand corrected ... and 'find' tends to concur. G. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www

Re: [Hampshire] Patch your Linux systems ("Ghost" vulnerability CVE-2015-0235)

2015-01-29 Thread Bob Dunlop
On Thu, Jan 29 at 03:36, Gordon Scott wrote: > On Thu, 2015-01-29 at 15:25 +, David Anderson wrote: > > Looks like it hasn't affected all distributions. I had updates for > > Centos and Raspbian, but nothing for Mint > > > > As it's in glibc, that seems to me pretty unlikely. > > More likely

Re: [Hampshire] Patch your Linux systems ("Ghost" vulnerability CVE-2015-0235)

2015-01-29 Thread Alan Pope
On 29 January 2015 at 15:36, Gordon Scott wrote: > On Thu, 2015-01-29 at 15:25 +, David Anderson wrote: >> Looks like it hasn't affected all distributions. I had updates for >> Centos and Raspbian, but nothing for Mint >> > > As it's in glibc, that seems to me pretty unlikely. > > More likely

Re: [Hampshire] Patch your Linux systems ("Ghost" vulnerability CVE-2015-0235)

2015-01-29 Thread Gordon Scott
On Thu, 2015-01-29 at 15:25 +, David Anderson wrote: > Looks like it hasn't affected all distributions. I had updates for > Centos and Raspbian, but nothing for Mint > As it's in glibc, that seems to me pretty unlikely. More likely is either that Mint was already fixed, or Mint have yet stil

Re: [Hampshire] Patch your Linux systems ("Ghost" vulnerability CVE-2015-0235)

2015-01-29 Thread David Anderson
On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 11:12:11 + Imran Chaudhry wrote: > Sounds like a pretty serious one, proof of concept involved an email > sent to a Exim mail server to get a remote shell. > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/27/glibc_ghost_vulnerability/ > Looks like it hasn't affected all distrib