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Securing JBoss, Part 1

This will be a two-parter, if only because I need to get the obvious stuff done first, before I can begin to research the tougher issues.
What I’ll cover here is securing the JBoss JMX and Web Consoles. The instructions for this are, more or less, found in the “Getting Started Guide” for the version of [...]

Posted 23 October 2008 † Phil Lembo § Applications § Configuration § Web Tech ‡ Comments Off

kernel update

Just installed the latest kernel update for CentOS 5, available 08/06/2008:
kernel-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5
The upstream advisory (dated 08/04/2008) is here. The advisory from U.S. CERT and NIST are here and here and here. The links given are to the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) hosted at NIST.
The original release date from CERT for the earliest of these was May [...]

Posted 06 September 2008 † Phil Lembo § Applications § Linux § Open Source Software § Systems ‡ Comments Off