newswall/news

courier-imap : 3.0.2

Courier-Imap has been upgraded from 2.1.2-r1 to 3.0.2 as recommended by GLSA 200403-06

newswall+

The server for newswall+ has now been ordered. It will hopefully be provisioned on Monday and I expect build time to be a week or two.

The server has been ordered from DediPower. 'Continue Reading' for the specs.

The server needs a name. Comments are open for suggestions. The winner gets... well their suggested name picked.

Server Plan: LinuxPower Starter
Processor: AMD 1.3Ghz Duron
Primary HDD: 40GB IDE 7200RPM
RAM: 256MB DDR RAM
Bandwidth: 20GB transfer per month
IP Addresses: 4 IP Addresses
OS: SuSE Professional 9.0
Back-up: 5GB NAS
SLA: Standard 99.9% SLA - Tier 2 Support

Apache 2 Vlun

Just to let you know Newswall is not affected by the security vulnerabilities recently announced for Apache 2. Newswall runs Apache 1.3.29-r1.

GLSA200403-04

Jabber / MSN

It appears MSN Messenger is down and thus the Jabber -> MSN connector isn't doing anything useful.

According to the official status page everything is okay, but it appears not.

No further update to follow, it'll just start working again hopefully. I'll give Jabber a restart later if it's not.

openssl : 0.9.7d

openssl has been updated from 0.9.7c-r1 to 0.9.7d. This is in response to GLSA 200403-03

Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 08:36:31 -0500
From: Aida Escriva-Sammer 
To: gentoo-announce@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-announce] Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 200403-03: Multiple OpenSSL Vulnerabilities
Parts/Attachments:
   1 Shown     94 lines  Text
   2          260 bytes  Application, "OpenPGP digital signature"



	Posted by gordonj at 12:17 PM
	
	

Power Outage

The power in the flat tripped out yesterday at about 17:20 due to a faulty iron causing newswall to be briefly unavailable.

kernel : 2.4.25_pre7-gss-r2

The kernel was upgraded to 2.4.25_pre7-gss-r2 last night. This resolves this privilege escalation issue : http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0014-mremap-unmap.txt.

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