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New Builds Published to Improve Installer

Posted by yolau

This is an important announcement from cPanel.net:

New cPanel builds have been published tonight to improve installation, speed, memory usage and upgrade experiences. Recently, installs and updates have been taking excessively long due to CPAN module tests during the Perl module updates. New EDGE, CURRENT and RELEASE builds 11.23.3 build 25946 (or later) have been released [...]

/bin/pwd broken in RHEL and CentOS 5

Posted by yolau

This is an important news alert from cPanel.net

Currently, RedHat is shipping an older version of coreutils which contains a known bug in /bin/pwd. If a parent directory to the directory /bin/pwd is executed in does not have read permissions, /bin/pwd will fail with the following error:
/bin/pwd: cannot open directory `..’: Permission denied
cPanel [...]

Important FreeBSD & Mbox Information

Posted by yolau

This post is an important news announcement from cPanel.net:

FreeBSD 4.x End of Support
cPanel support for FreeBSD 4.x will end August 1, 2008. cPanel will
not maintain binary compatibility for FreeBSD versions less than 5.x.
cPanel recommends that all affected users update to the latest
production release of FreeBSD to ensure future compatibility. If you
are unable [...]

Linux Kernel 2.6 Local Root Exploit, 2.6.17 - 2.6.24.1

Posted by yolau

It is something that is quite old in the Linux community but be advised that linux kernels 2.6.17 to 2.6.24.1 are vulnerable to a local root exploit. I still see a lot of servers that are vulnerable.
At this time it is recommended that you upgrade your kernel to the latest version available for your [...]

Horde arbitrary file inclusion vulnerability

Posted by yolau

cPanel has issued an important security alert. Please read it fully:

An arbitrary file inclusion vulnerability has been discovered in the Horde webmail application. At present, we can confirm that this security vulnerability in question affects Horde 3.1.6 and earlier. Based on incomplete information at this time, we also believe this affects Horde [...]

Random JS Toolkit

Posted by yolau

Most of you are aware of the recent exploit that has hit the Linux work, but for those of your that aren’t I’ll be posting a quote from an announcement from cPanel.com. Please note that I don’t totally agree with them on this for now.

A server compromise trend has been recently reported targeting multiple hosting [...]