Original Source: BleepingComputer
Independent consultant and security contractor Max Justicz discovered a remote code execution issue in the APT high level package manager used by Debian, Ubuntu, and other related Linux distributions.
As described by Justicz, the APT vulnerability present in the package manager starting with version 0.8.15 “allows a network man-in-the-middle (or a malicious package mirror) to execute arbitrary code as root on a machine installing any package.
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In a vulnerable web and cloud based world, KeePassXC offers excellent password management that’s secure, reliable, offline by default and open source. A password manager is a tool that creates and stores passwords for you, so you can use many different passwords on different sites and services without having to memorize them all, and/or more importantly avoid using the same non-secure password.
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Examine Network Socket Connections with Linux ss Command Instead of Netstat The Linux ‘ss’ command replaces the older ‘netstat’ and makes a lot of information about network and socket connections available for you to easily examine or troubleshoot issues. The ss (socket statistics) command provides a lot of information by displaying details on socket activity. Whatis a Socket? A socket is a Linux file descriptor for communicating with the network.
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Had this pop up today, been several years since the ugly Apache semaphore scenario reared its messy head. You’ll have an Apache http web service down, upon typical quick look and attempt to restart, Apache fails to kick off. No biggie, whether digging through logs, systemctl status and journalctl stuffs you’ll eventually come across something similar to:
[Sun Dec 23 15:22:11.
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The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 19.1 “Tessa” Cinnamon Edition.
Linux Mint 19.1 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2023. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use.
New features:
This new version of Linux Mint contains many improvements.
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If you use or keep up with all things Linux you’re no doubt aware that the Linux Mint 19.1 “Tessa” beta dropped last week. Linux Mint 19.1 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2023. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use. Mint 19.
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You need to change an IP address of an interface on a Linux server without loosing connectivity, so here’s one way:
First add a secondary IP address to the interface:
ip addr add 192.168.1.10/24 dev eth0<br /> ip addr show eth0
And confirm:
eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP link/ether 44:38:39:00:11:aa brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.1.5/24 scope global eth0 inet 192.
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This is always an interesting one, comes up from time to time especially if you run a server with heavy database traffic.
Possibly you’ve modified you my.cnf with various tweaked settings for ‘max_connections’ or ‘open_files_limit’ but your your ‘mysqld.log’ you start getting:
<span class="pun">[</span><span class="pln">Warning</span><span class="pun">]</span><span class="pln"> Buffered warning</span><span class="pun">:</span><span class="pln"> Changed limits</span><span class="pun">:</span><span class="pln"> max_open_files</span><span class="pun">:</span> <span class="lit">1024</span> <span class="pun">(</span><span class="pln">requested </span><span class="lit">5000</span><span class="pun">)</span><br />
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R1Soft error will resemble something like – “Failed to backup LVM/MD Configuration” with running LVM based commands from R1Soft.
Usually due to an upstream vendor or repo update of the LVM binary that conflicts with the R1soft native configuration “lvm.static” command.
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