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Thank you for reading the Linux Advisory Watch Security Newsletter. The purpose of this document is to provide our readers with a quick summary of each week's vendor security bulletins and pointers on methods to improve the security posture of your open source system. Vulnerabilities affect nearly every vendor virtually every week, so be sure to read through to find the updates your distributor have made available.

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Peter Smith Releases Linux Network Security Online - Thanks so much to Peter Smith for announcing on linuxsecurity.com the release of his Linux Network Security book available free online. "In 2005 I wrote a book on Linux security. 8 years later and the publisher has gone out of business. Now that I'm free from restrictions on reproducing material from the book, I have decided to make the entire book available online."

Securing a Linux Web Server - With the significant prevalence of Linux web servers globally, security is often touted as a strength of the platform for such a purpose. However, a Linux based web server is only as secure as its configuration and very often many are quite vulnerable to compromise. While specific configurations vary wildly due to environments or specific use, there are various general steps that can be taken to insure basic security considerations are in place.

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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Apache HTTP Server, the worse of which could lead to execution of arbitrary code or a Denial of Service condition
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in PHP, the worst of which could lead to remote execution of arbitrary code.
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A vulnerability in Libgcrypt could allow a remote attacker to extract ElGamal private key information.
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GNU Libtasn1, the worse of which can allow a context-dependent attacker to cause a Denial of Service condition.
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A vulnerability in file could result in Denial of Service.
  Red Hat: 2014:1102-01: ror40-rubygem-activerecord: Important Advisory (Aug 27)
 

Updated ror40-rubygem-activerecord packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Software Collections 1. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security [More...]
  Red Hat: 2014:1101-01: kernel: Important Advisory (Aug 27)
 

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security [More...]
  Ubuntu: 2328-1: GNU C Library vulnerability (Aug 28)
 

Certain applications could be made to crash or run programs as anadministrator.
  Ubuntu: 2327-1: Squid 3 vulnerability (Aug 28)
 

Squid could be made to crash if it received specially crafted networktraffic.
  Ubuntu: 2319-2: OpenJDK 7 regression (Aug 25)
 

USN-2319-1 introduced a regression in OpenJDK 7.
  Ubuntu: 2325-1: OpenStack Nova vulnerability (Aug 21)
 

OpenStack Nova could be made to expose sensitive information over thenetwork.
  Ubuntu: 2324-1: OpenStack Keystone vulnerabilities (Aug 21)
 

Several security issues were fixed in OpenStack Keystone.
  Ubuntu: 2323-1: OpenStack Horizon vulnerabilities (Aug 21)
 

Several security issues were fixed in OpenStack Horizon.
  Ubuntu: 2322-1: OpenStack Glance vulnerability (Aug 21)
 

OpenStack Glance could be made to stop serving requests.
  Ubuntu: 2321-1: OpenStack Neutron vulnerabilities (Aug 21)
 

OpenStack Neutron could be made to expose sensitive information or crash.
  Ubuntu: 2311-2: OpenStack Ceilometer vulnerability (Aug 21)
 

OpenStack Ceilometer could be made to expose sensitive information.