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 parsing flaws in Bash could allow remote attackers to inject code or cause a Denial of Service condition.
Mandriva: 2014:195: libvirt (Oct 3)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in libvirt: An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the way libvirt's qemuDomainGetBlockIoTune() function looked up the disk index in a non-persistent (live) disk configuration while a persistent disk [More...]
Mandriva: 2014:194: phpmyadmin (Oct 3)

A vulnerability has been discovered and corrected in phpmyadmin: With a crafted ENUM value it is possible to trigger an XSS in table search and table structure pages (CVE-2014-7217). [More...]
Red Hat: 2014:1371-01: nss: Important Advisory (Oct 10)

Updated nss packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Extended Life Cycle Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 Long Life, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 Extended Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Advanced Update Support, and Red Hat [More...]
Red Hat: 2014:1365-01: kernel: Important Advisory (Oct 7)

Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue 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...]
Red Hat: 2014:1359-01: polkit-qt: Important Advisory (Oct 6)

Updated polkit-qt packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security [More...]
Ubuntu: 2381-1: Rsyslog vulnerabilities (Oct 9)

Rsyslog could be made to crash if it received specially crafted input.
Ubuntu: 2380-1: Bash vulnerabilities (Oct 9)

Several security issues were fixed in Bash.
Ubuntu: 2378-1: Linux kernel (Trusty HWE) vulnerabilities (Oct 9)

Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.
Ubuntu: 2379-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities (Oct 9)

Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.
Ubuntu: 2377-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities (Oct 9)

Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.
Ubuntu: 2374-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities (Oct 9)

Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.
Ubuntu: 2375-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities (Oct 9)

Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.
Ubuntu: 2376-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities (Oct 9)

Several security issues were fixed in the kernel.
Ubuntu: 2371-1: Exuberant Ctags vulnerability (Oct 8)

Exuberant Ctags could be made to consume resources.
Ubuntu: 2370-1: APT vulnerability (Oct 8)

APT could be made to overwrite files.
Ubuntu: 2369-1: file vulnerability (Oct 2)

file could be made to crash or run programs as your login if itopened a specially crafted file.
Ubuntu: 2368-1: OpenVPN vulnerability (Oct 2)

OpenVPN could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.
Ubuntu: 2367-1: OpenSSL update (Oct 2)

OpenSSL TLSv1.2 support has been improved.