Dotdeb packages are now signed!

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

After many requests from several users and after many months of promise, the Dotdeb repositories are GPG-signed. Yes, you can now get rid of the annoying "WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!" message! Waiting for a dotdeb-keyring package, you just have to get the appropriate file by hand and add ...

MySQL 5.1.47, a security-focused release, is available

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

MySQL 5.1.47 is now available on Dotdeb for your Lenny servers, in amd64 and i386 flavours. This is a security-oriented release that fixes some serious flaws... Please read full changelog for more information. Please also note that the InnoDB plugin has been upgraded to version 1.0.8 and is now considered of General Availability ...

May is the month of PHP security

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

According to Stefan Esser, author of the Suhosin patch, May 2010 will be the "Month of PHP Security" : This initiative continues the effort of Hardened-PHP's Month of PHP Bugs in 2007 to improve the security of PHP and the PHP ecosystem by disclosing vulnerabilities in PHP and PHP applications on ...

Etch security support discontinued by Debian on Feb. 15th…

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

The Debian security team announced that Debian 4.0 "Etch" security support  will be ended on February 15th, 2010 : Security Support for Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 to be discontinued on February 15th One year after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias 'lenny' and nearly three years after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias 'etch' ...

MySQL 5.1.41 has been updated to fix a security issue

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

I just uploaded new MySQL 5.1.41 packages that fix a remote buffer overflow in MySQL servers that use the embedded YaSSL library : Lenz Grimmer gives more information about this issue CVE-2009-4484 has been filled Since Debian and Dotdeb are impacted, you are strongly encouraged to upgrade your servers.

MySQL 5.0.77 available

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

MySQL 5.0.77 packages are now available on Dotdeb for Debian Etch amd64/i386. This is a maintenance release that fix some annoying bugs and a severe security issue. Please read the official list of changes in 5.0.77  before upgrading.

PHP 5.2.8 available [update]

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

The PHP Group released PHP 5.2.8 this morning to fix the magic_quotes_gpc issue. If you previously installed PHP 5.2.7-0.dotdeb.1 from Dotdeb and do not care about the version number displayed in your phpinfo(), save your bandwidth, your server is already secure :) Otherwise, just apt-get upgrade your LAMP stack... [update] The packages have ...

PHP 5.2.7 updated because magic_quotes_gpc is broken

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

Stefan Esser has posted a warning about upgrading PHP to the 5.2.7 release : (...)a change in the ext/filter extension that by default processes all incoming data, broke the magic_quotes_gpc feature. While magic_quotes_gpc itself is deprecated and it is recommended to not rely on it as protection against SQL injection, it is ...