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 found in OpenSSL, possibly allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.
Mandriva: 2014:148: dbus (Jul 31)

Updated dbus packages fix security vulnerabilities: A flaw was reported in D-Bus's file descriptor passing feature. A local attacker could use this flaw to cause a service or application to disconnect from the bus, typically resulting in that service or [More...]
Mandriva: 2014:147: sendmail (Jul 31)

Updated sendmail packages fix security vulnerability: Sendmail before 8.14.9 does not properly closing file descriptors before executing programs. This bug could enable local users to interfere with an open SMTP connection if they can execute their own [More...]
Mandriva: 2014:146: file (Jul 31)

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in file: file before 5.19 does not properly restrict the amount of data read during a regex search, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted file that triggers [More...]
Mandriva: 2014:145: php-ZendFramework (Jul 31)

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in php-ZendFramework: The implementation of the ORDER BY SQL statement in Zend_Db_Select of Zend Framework 1 contains a potential SQL injection when the query string passed contains parentheses (CVE-2014-4914). [More...]
Mandriva: 2014:144: live (Jul 30)

Updated live fix security vulnerability: The live555 RTSP streaming server and client libraries before 2013.11.29 are vulnerable to buffer overflows in RTSP command parsing that potentially allow for arbitrary code execution when connected [More...]
Mandriva: 2014:143: phpmyadmin (Jul 30)

Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in phpmyadmin: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the PMA_getHtmlForActionLinks function in libraries/structure.lib.php in [More...]
Mandriva: 2014:142: apache (Jul 30)

Updated apache package fixes security vulnerabilities: A race condition flaw, leading to heap-based buffer overflows, was found in the mod_status httpd module. A remote attacker able to access a status page served by mod_status on a server using a threaded [More...]
Mandriva: 2014:141: java-1.7.0-openjdk (Jul 29)

Updated java-1.7.0-openjdk packages fix security vulnerabilities: It was discovered that the Hotspot component in OpenJDK did not properly verify bytecode from the class files. An untrusted Java application or applet could possibly use these flaws to bypass Java [More...]
Mandriva: 2014:140: owncloud (Jul 29)

Updated owncloud package fixes security vulnerability: Owncloud versions 5.0.17 and 6.0.4 fix an unspecified security vulnerability, as well as many other bugs. [More...]
Mandriva: 2014:139: nss (Jul 29)

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in mozilla NSS: Use-after-free vulnerability in the CERT_DestroyCertificate function in libnss3.so in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) 3.x, as used in Firefox before 31.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.7, and Thunderbird [More...]
Red Hat: 2014:0994-01: openstack-keystone: Important Advisory (Jul 31)

Updated openstack-keystone packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 3.0 and 4.0. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having [More...]
Red Hat: 2014:0981-01: kernel: Important Advisory (Jul 29)

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs, and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having [More...]
Red Hat: 2014:0949-01: kernel: Important Advisory (Jul 28)

Updated kernel packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Advanced Update Support. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having [More...]
Red Hat: 2014:0888-01: qemu-kvm-rhev: Moderate Advisory (Jul 24)

Updated qemu-kvm-rhev packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 3.0 and 4.0. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Moderate [More...]
Red Hat: 2014:0939-01: python-django-horizon: Moderate Advisory (Jul 24)

Updated python-django-horizon packages that fix three security issues, multiple bugs, and add an enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. [More...]
Red Hat: 2014:0940-01: openstack-nova: Moderate Advisory (Jul 24)

Updated openstack-nova packages that fix one security issue and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. [More...]
Red Hat: 2014:0941-01: openstack-swift: Moderate Advisory (Jul 24)

Updated openstack-swift packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. [More...]
Ubuntu: 2304-1: KDE-Libs vulnerability (Jul 31)

kauth could be tricked into bypassing polkit authorizations.
Ubuntu: 2303-1: Unity vulnerability (Jul 31)

The Unity lock screen could possibly be bypassed in certain circumstances.
Ubuntu: 2302-1: Tomcat vulnerabilities (Jul 30)

Several security issues were fixed in Tomcat.
Ubuntu: 2301-1: Jinja2 vulnerabilities (Jul 24)

A security issue was fixed in Jinja2.
Ubuntu: 2300-1: LZO vulnerability (Jul 24)

LZO could be made to crash or run programs if it processed speciallycrafted data.