Emergency Security Dist Notification: Updates for 1/20/2012
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Friday, 20th January, 2012
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17:00pm
The following updates are going out immediately to the following platform:
FreeBSD MPS/VPS v2
The following updates will be made to the FreeBSD VPS/MPS v2 platform.
Important services to be restarted:
The following services will be restarted by Verio as part of the update:
Change Description
- Telnet
- Telnet will be disabled on all VPSv2 and MPSv2 accounts to better ensure account level security. It is recommended customers instead use SSH. Verio has selected to disable Telnet by default on this platform, as was previously done on other Verio platforms. This action is in response to a number of security concerns in using Telnet including the most recent CVE documented here:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-4862
Note:This notification reflects the best knowledge of code and feature updates for this release. Changes can be made to the information herein; these changes will be distributed in new notifications. AlpineWeb might make improvements and/or changes in the product(s) and/or the program(s) described in this publication at any time.
