Development, Analysis And Research
by Andrew Johnstone
Archive for December, 2010
Server hacked: exim4 — arbitrary code execution
18 Dec 2010One of our servers was hacked, 5 days after a Debian Security Advisory. The exploit was executed in two phases, the first to gain access to the system and the second to escalate privileges. The exploit used targeted Exim with a memory corruption issue that allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code as the [...]
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- apt-get unattended / non-interactive installation | Development, Analysis And Research: [...] previously wrote about “Installing Java & MySQL – unattended/non-interactive insta [...]
- franck: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD_jail [...]
- franck: That web server should not live in such close proximity to that SMTP server... chroot/jail may be th [...]
- Vagrant – Automating PHP Installation with bash/slack for continuous deployment | Development, Analysis And Research: [...] More examples of installing MySQL unattended can be found at Installing Java & MySQL – u [...]
- Can the NIC ucarp uses be bridged? - Admins Goodies: [...] http://ajohnstone.com/achives/running-several-vips-on-the-same-interface-with-ucarp-and-haprox [...]
- apt-get unattended / non-interactive installation
- PHP apache_note, Graphite & Logster for logging
- Vagrant – Automating PHP/MySQL Installation with bash/slack for continuous deployment
- PHP5.3 autoload/class_exists fail
- Selenium
- Installing Java & MySQL – unattended/non-interactive installation
- Memcached multigets – ubuntu vs debian
- Optimizing and testing MySQL over NFS with NetAPP
- MySQL oddity with disappearing body of stored procedures
- MySQL to Oracle synchronization using PHP over VPNC