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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 14 Feb '08

14 Feb '08

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Microsoft Security Bulletin for February 2008 http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1202893714 Last night [1]Microsoft has released the [2]Security Bulletin Summary for February, 2008. There are 6 critical and 5 important updates. If Automatic Update is not activated yet, then you must visit [3]Microsoft Update to install the Security Updates. References 1. http://www.microsoft.com/ 2. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-feb.mspx 3. http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New or updated readmes Setting up an LTSP server for diskless clients http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/233 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Local root exploit for all Linux kernels from 2.6.17 to 2.6.24.1 http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1202742500 Last weekend two local root exploits have been released to the public, one that affects 2.6.23 up to 2.6.23.14 and 2.6.24 ([1]CVE-2008-0009, [2]CVE-2008-0010) and [3]one that affects all versions beginning with 2.6.17 and up to 2.6.22.17, 2.6.23.15, and 2.6.24.1 ([4]CVE-2008-0600). There are new kernel releases available which fix these issues: 2.6.22.18, 2.6.23.16, and 2.6.24.2. About half of our managed Linux workstations are already running a patched 2.6.24.1 kernel, the rest will be rebooted this evening after 10:00pm. Please logout this evening before you go home, save all unsafed work and don't start any long running jobs. To see if your workstation is still affected, [5]check our Big Brother: All workstations where the updates column ("upd") is yellow are not yet rebooted. You may also reboot your workstation yourself earlier. References 1. http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0009 2. http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0010 3. http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/10/8 4. http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0600 5. http://bb.phys.ethz.ch/bb/bb2.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

------------------------------------------------------------------------ New or updated readmes Create a new website http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/182 VPNC with Linux http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/96 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

------------------------------------------------------------------------ New or updated readmes Readme http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/1 How to connect shared Printers in Windows Vista http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/235 Printing with SMB (Windows) http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 02 Feb '08

02 Feb '08

------------------------------------------------------------------------ What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1201859940 Ulrich Drepper has written an extensive paper titled [1]What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory. If you are writing programs that should run optimally on current hardware this reference article is for you. References 1. http://people.redhat.com/drepper/cpumemory.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

------------------------------------------------------------------------ New or updated readmes Hostnames of our services http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/67 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

------------------------------------------------------------------------ New or updated readmes VPNC with Linux http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/96 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

------------------------------------------------------------------------ New or updated readmes Create a new website http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/182 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Maintenance on file servers and server gateway http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1200494446 An upgrade of the operating system from Debian 3.1 to Debian 4.0 on the server gateway schilt will be done on: * Monday, January 21th 2008 between 19:00 and 22:00 During the gateway upgrade we will also apply security updates to the fileservers foostock, schibe, teutates and tamesis. Over the entire period access to the following services may be interupted: * home and group directories (winhome, machome, unixhome, windata, macdata, unixdata, astrodata) * print services * mail services * web services Please do not run any long running jobs during that time since the file servers won't be reliably reachable during that time. Ideally you shouldn't use any computer which relies on the mentioned services during this time. Especially all our managed workstations (Linux, Windows, Mac) won't be usable. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Microsoft Security Bulletin for January 2008 http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1199860118 Last night [1]Microsoft has released the [2]Security Bulletin Summary for January, 2008. There are 1 critical and 1 important updates. If Automatic Update is not activated yet, then you must visit [3]Microsoft Update to install the Security Updates. References 1. http://www.microsoft.com/ 2. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-jan.mspx 3. http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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