Thursday, December 8th, 2011
The Debian project has announced in a security advisory (DSA-2360-1) that the security support for Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny" will be terminated in february 2012 :
This is an advance notice that security support for Debian GNU/Linux 5.0
(code name "lenny") will be terminated in two months.
The Debian project released Debian ...
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Saturday, April 9th, 2011
On March 17th, the PHP Group released PHP 5.3.6. This maintainance release, that focuses on security, is now available on Dotdeb for Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" in amd64 and i386 flavours.
The compatibility with the official Debian packages has been improved and you (especially the FPM users) should really take care of some ...
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Friday, January 7th, 2011
A few days after releasing PHP 5.3.4 and PHP 5.2.16, the PHP group announced an important security update with PHP 5.3.5 and PHP 5.2.17 :
This release resolves a critical issue, reported as PHP bug #53632 and CVE-2010-4645, where conversions from string to double might cause the PHP interpreter to hang ...
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Sunday, December 5th, 2010
MySQL 5.1.53 packages for Debian 5.0 « Lenny » are now available on Dotdeb in amd64/i386 flavours. Please note that they're available as preview for Squeeze too.
This maintainance release fixes many bugs and security issues. Upgrading is strongly recommended after having read the Changelogs here and here.
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Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
MySQL versions prior to 5.1.51 (including 5.1.50) suffer from a vulnerability in the processing of arguments passed to the LEAST()or GREATEST() functions. This issue could be exploited by a malicious user to cause a server crash, leading to a DoS condition.
You really should upgrade your Lenny servers (amd64 or i386) with the ...
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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 key and add it to your trusted ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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' ...
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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.
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