Keeping Tabs on Your Patches - Although this post is mostly about Oracle patching, there is a good point about the perception of how easy / simple a task is based on how the administrator presents herself.
Canonical’s Landscape is flawed. - Although Canonical’s Landscape product does look really interesting for large Ubuntu deployments, I’m also […]

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Red Hat released one security update today.
RHSA-2007:0721 Moderate: qt security update
This update addresses one vulnerability in the qt packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5. An integer overflow in Qt error handling could lead to a denial of service or arbitrary code execution (CVE-2007-3388). The Red Hat Security Response Team […]

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I was just notified by Firefox’s auto-updater that a new version of Firefox is ready to go.
Firefox 2.0.0.6 is a security release addressing two vulnerabilities (see Table 1 below). Since a majority of Slaptijack are Firefox users, it seems appropriate to make the importance of this update clear.
Click the MFSA ID for […]

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A short list today, but I’ve introduced a few sites I’ve never linked before. Enjoy.

Last Date of Support Announcement for the Cisco ONS 15800/ONS 15801 10-Gbps B1 NO-FEC TRANSPONDERS - More changes to the Cisco ONS.
Changing the format of IP routes - I’ve only recently begun reading Ivan Pepelnjak’s IOS Hints and Tricks blog, […]

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There are so many Red Hat Security Updates today (5), I’m just going to link them. If you use any of these packages on any version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, I recommend you investigate these alerts and take the appropriate action.

RHSA-2007:0720 Important: cups security update
RHSA-2007:0729 Important: kdegraphics security update
RHSA-2007:0730 Important: gpdf security update
RHSA-2007:0732 […]

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