Vulnerabilities in the Debian GNU/Linux operating system that allow a malicious individual to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information

The multiple vulnerabilities in the linux-image-2.6.18-5-s390-tape operating system package from Debian GNU/Linux may lead to breaches of the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information...

Photo reveals even Zuckerberg tapes his Webcam and Microphone for Privacy

What do you do to protect your 'Privacy' and keep yourself safe from potential hackers? Well, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg just need a bit of tape to cover his laptop webcam and mic jack in order to protect his privacy. Yes, Zuck also does the same as the FBI Director James Comey. Zuckerberg post...

So, FBI Director also Puts Tape Over His Webcam

What do you do to protect your 'Privacy' while using your computer? FBI Director James Comey uses tape to cover up his laptop webcam to ensure Privacy. Yes, you heard it right. During the Q&A session at Kenyon College last week, Comey said that he uses tape to cover his laptop webcam in order to...

Tape Write Operations Fail for MHVTL if Block Size Is Not Set to 64 KB

Challenge All tape write operations fail for MHVTL drives if the data block size is not set to 65,536 bytes. Cause Starting in Veeam Backup & Replication v9, a new algorithm for automatically selecting the data block size was implemented. The software will automatically detect the highest availab...

Oracle: Security Advisory (ELSA-2009-1243)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Tape media not visible in the GUI

Challenge Tape media that is labelled with barcodes starting with "CLN" or "CLR" is not visible in Veeam Backup & Replication GUI Shell. Cause Tapes with labels starting with "CLN" or "CLR" are automatically detected as cleaning tapes and are hidden in the user interface. This is by design...

Bacula - Network Backup Tool for Linux, Unix, Mac, and Windows

Bacula is a set of computer programs that permits the system administrator to manage backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of computers of different kinds. Bacula can also run entirely upon a single computer and can backup to various types of media, including tape a...

Vulnerabilities of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system that allow a remote attacker to compromise the accessibility of protected information

The kernel-image-2.4.27-2-s390-tape package of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system has multiple vulnerabilities. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may lead to a violation of the accessibility of protected information. These vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely...

Vulnerabilities in the Debian GNU/Linux operating system that allow a remote attacker to compromise the confidentiality of protected information

The Linux-image-2.6.18-4-s390-tape package from the Debian GNU/Linux operating system has multiple vulnerabilities. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may lead to breaches of the confidentiality of protected information. These vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely...

Vulnerabilities in the Debian GNU/Linux operating system that allow a local malicious individual to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information

The Linux-image-2.6-s390-tape package of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system has multiple vulnerabilities. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may lead to breaches of confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information. These vulnerabilities can be exploited by local...

Vulnerabilities in the Debian GNU/Linux operating system that allow a local malicious individual to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information

The Linux-image-s390-tape package of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system has multiple vulnerabilities. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may lead to breaches of confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information. These vulnerabilities can be exploited by local malicious...

An attempt to access data before the beginning-of-medium marker failed

Challenge During a tape related process in Veeam Backup & Replication the error "An attempt to access data before the beginning-of-medium marker failed" is thrown. Cause The most common cause of this is faulty tape. Solution If there is no content on the tape try erasing it, if the issue persists...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9680

sudo before 1.8.12 does not ensure that the TZ environment variable is associated with a zoneinfo file, which allows local users to open arbitrary files for read access but not view file contents by running a program within an sudo session, as demonstrated by interfering with terminal output,...

CA ARCserve Backup Tape Engine Denial of Service - Ver2 (CVE-2008-4398)

There exists a denial of service vulnerability in CA BrightStor ARCserve Backup Tape Engine service. The vulnerability is due to insufficient input validation in the ClientCreateJobHandle library function. A remote unauthenticated attacker may exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted messa...

Tape Inventory With: "Unknown media (possibly in use by another application)."

Challenge A tape inventory or catalog operation fails with the following error: Cannot inventory tape in Drive 1 Server: , Library: , Drive ID: TapeX. Unknown media possibly in use by another application. Cause This error is shown when Veeam Backup & Replication does not recognize the MTF header ...

OracleVM 2.1 : udev (OVMSA-2009-0006)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : CVE-2009-1185 udev before 1.4.1 does not verify whether a NETLINK message originates from kernel space, which allows local users to gain privileges by sending a NETLINK message from user space. - fix fo...

Failed to execute SQL scripts for Database

Challenge Upgrade from Veeam Backup & Replication 7 to 8 may fail with "Failed to execute SQL scripts for Database " Cause The issue is caused by mediapools which are not linked to any library but still contain tape media entries. This may happen when the library or standalone drive was exchanged...

Backup to tape jobs fails when the source contains .vrb files

Challenge 1. When using backup to tape on a source job containing .vrb files, the jobs may fail with the error: MediaPool not found id: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000. 2. When enabling incremental mode in backup to tape, .vrb files will be transfered to tape. Cause This is a known issue...

Tape requires return to original slot , but it is already filled. Move tape manually, and retry operation

Challenge Inventory job or any tape jobs may fail with an error "Tape requires return to original slot , but it is already filled. Move tape manually, and retry operation" You may find following entries in the Job..TapeVmBackup.log / Job..TapeFilesBackup or Job.Tapelibraryinventory.TapeInventory:...

Tape configuration restore

Challenge Due to architecture limitations, configuration backups created with Veeam Backup & Replication 7.0 did not capture database records that were responsible for displaying VMs processed with jobs in the Veeam Backup & Replication console. These limitations applied to all types of jobs,...