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Today’s newsletter highlights our two most recent feature articles: 21Nails: Multiple Critical Vulnerabilities Discovered in Exim Mail Server - Patch Now! and Protect Your WordPress Sites with CrowdSec. We also examine various topics including an important Linux Mint update and a set of dangerous vulnerabilities discovered in the Exim mail server that could result in remote code execution, privilege escalation to root and lateral movement through a victims environment if left unpatched. Happy Monday - and happy reading!
Yours in Open Source,
LinuxSecurity.com Feature Extras:
21Nails: Multiple Critical Vulnerabilities Discovered in Exim Mail Server - Patch Now! - The Qualys Research Team has discovered multiple critical vulnerabilities in the popular Exim mail server, which they have named 21Nails. Some of these flaws can be chained together to obtain full remote unauthenticated code execution and gain root privileges.
Protect Your WordPress Sites with CrowdSec - The CrowdSec team is expanding the capabilities of their open-source and free security solution by finalizing the release of its brand new application bouncer on the WordPress marketplace.
The 10 Best Linux Server Distributions (May 4) | ||
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Linux Mint 18.x reaches end of life, upgrade now (May 3) | ||
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Linux's Technical Advisory Board reports on the UMN 'Hypocrite Commits' patches (May 6) | ||
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How to Configure the Firewall in Ubuntu With UFW (May 3) | ||
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Putting an Ultra-Tiny Linux Board in a Phone Charger…Eventually (May 7) | ||
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Raft of Exim Security Holes Allow Linux Mail Server Takeovers (May 6) | ||
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How to set up a CrowdSec multi-server installation (May 4) | ||
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How to integrate Linux Malware Detection and ClamAV for automated malware detection on Linux servers (May 7) | ||
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10 monitoring tools for Linux system administrators you should know about (May 5) | ||
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Understanding Linux File Permissions (May 5) | ||
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