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 ichaud...@gmail.com 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

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 gor...@gscott.co.uk 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.

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 is either

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:

[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 helencodl...@oreilly.co.uk To: chair...@hants.lug.org.uk