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 PHP, the worst of which could lead to remote execution of arbitrary code.
  Red Hat: 2014:1852-01: flash-plugin: Critical Advisory (Nov 12)
 

An updated Adobe Flash Player package that fixes multiple security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 Supplementary. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Critical security [More...]
  Red Hat: 2014:1846-01: gnutls: Moderate Advisory (Nov 12)
 

Updated gnutls 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 Moderate security [More...]
  Red Hat: 2014:1826-01: libvncserver: Moderate Advisory (Nov 11)
 

Updated libvncserver packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security [More...]
  Red Hat: 2014:1827-01: kdenetwork: Moderate Advisory (Nov 11)
 

Updated kdenetwork packages that fix three security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security [More...]
  Red Hat: 2014:1843-01: kernel: Important Advisory (Nov 11)
 

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security [More...]
  Red Hat: 2014:1825-01: php: Critical Advisory (Nov 6)
 

Updated php packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Extended Life Cycle Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Critical security [More...]
  Red Hat: 2014:1824-01: php: Important Advisory (Nov 6)
 

Updated php packages that fix three security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security [More...]
  Ubuntu: 2409-1: QEMU vulnerabilities (Nov 13)
 

Several security issues were fixed in QEMU.
  Ubuntu: 2408-1: OpenStack Neutron vulnerability (Nov 11)
 

OpenStack Neutron would allow unintended access to configuration over thenetwork.
  Ubuntu: 2407-1: OpenStack Nova vulnerabilities (Nov 11)
 

OpenStack Nova could be made to expose sensitive information.
  Ubuntu: 2406-1: OpenStack Keystone vulnerability (Nov 11)
 

OpenStack Keystone could be made to expose sensitive information over thenetwork.
  Ubuntu: 2405-1: OpenStack Cinder vulnerabilities (Nov 11)
 

OpenStack Cinder could be made to expose sensitive information over thenetwork.
  Ubuntu: 2404-1: libvirt vulnerabilities (Nov 11)
 

Several security issues were fixed in libvirt.
  Ubuntu: 2403-1: GnuTLS vulnerability (Nov 11)
 

GnuTLS could be made to crash or run programs if it processed a speciallycrafted certificate.
  Ubuntu: 2402-1: KDE workspace vulnerabilities (Nov 10)
 

KDE workspace could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator.
  Ubuntu: 2401-1: Konversation vulnerability (Nov 10)
 

Konversation could be made to crash if it received specially craftednetwork traffic.
  Ubuntu: 2400-1: LibreOffice vulnerability (Nov 10)
 

LibreOffice could be made to embed sensitive information into documents.
  Ubuntu: 2399-1: curl vulnerability (Nov 10)
 

curl could expose sensitive information over the network.