Difference between revisions of "Security Updates"

Revision as of 10:55, 29 September 2014

QuantaStor uses the Ubuntu Server linux distribution as a basis and uses the security patches packaged by Canonical to address the need to patch various parts of the operating system for security and stability of the system. To apply these updates you need to login to the system as the administrator 'qadmin' account and then run the following command:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Fix for Heartbleed CVE-2014-0076, CVE-2014-0160

Ubuntu Security update notification: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2165-1/

You can upgrade your OpenSSL release to the latest which includes the fixes for CVE-2014-0076, CVE-2014-0160 'heartbleed' with the below console commands as the 'qadmin' administrative user:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openssl

Fix for Bash CVE-2014-6271

Ubuntu Security update notification: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2362-1/

You can upgrade your Bash release to the latest which includes the fix for CVE-2014-6271 'shellshock' with the below console commands as the 'qadmin' administrative user:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bash