Apple announced a firmware update for Intel-based Xserve systems this afternoon. A security vulnerability in Apple’s implementation of IPMI could allow an unprivileged ipmitool user to gain administrative privileges on an Xserve system (CVE-2007-2387). The Xserve Lights-Out Management Firmware Update 1.0 addresses this vulnerability. Further information can be found on the Apple […]

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Sun Microsystems released two security updates this morning: #102932 Adobe Flash Player and #102936 NAS OS.
#102932 Adobe Flash Player May Allow Unauthorized Header Injection
This security update addresses one vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player for Solaris 10 on both SPARC and X86 platforms. An application that is viewed with Flash Player can be used to […]

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Red Hat released three critical security updates last night: RHSA-2007:0400, RHSA-2007:0401, and RHSA-2007:0402.
RHSA-2007:0400 Critical: firefox security update
This security update addresses several vulnerabilities in the Firefox package for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5. A list of vulnerabilities is included in Table 1 below. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this […]

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This information is really geared for pre-Tiger versions of OS X. In OS X 10.4 (Tiger), the BIND daemon is controlled by launchd and is pre-configured (although disabled). BIND Startup in Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) has more detailed information. Although outdated, this article still includes useful information.
Although OS X 10.4 (Tiger) […]

Categories: System Administration

By default, Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) comes with BIND 9 pre-installed and pre-configured to operate in caching-only mode. Unfortunately, the operating system is not configured to start the server at boot time, or even use the server if it was running. In this series of articles, we’ll create a startup item for […]

Categories: System Administration