How and when to upgrade VMWare tools

Issue The objective is to upgrade VMware Tools after an ESX host upgrade, make the change in the OS Layer and create a new View Agent app layer...

AppLayering 2.x: Increase the Size of an App Layer Disk in Unidesk

This article describes how to increase the disk size of an App Layer...

The list of Windows Updates is usually wrong in app/platform layers and published images/desktops

The Windows Update history is correct only in the layer where the updates were actually installed. So you can only rely on the displayed list of Windows Updates when you are editing the OS layer, because Windows Updates must always be installed in the OS Layer. Similarly, you can only rely on the...

Fedora 24 : suricata (2017-f9f3a78148)

This is a new upstream feature and security release. Improvements include: bypass; pre-filter -- fast packet keywords; TLS improvements; ICS protocol additions: DNP3 CIP/ENIP; SHA1/SHA256 for file matching, logging & extraction; NIC offloading disabled by default; unix socket enabled by default;...

Fedora 25 : suricata (2017-f3aac83a8f)

This is a new upstream feature and security release. Improvements include: bypass; pre-filter -- fast packet keywords; TLS improvements; ICS protocol additions: DNP3 CIP/ENIP; SHA1/SHA256 for file matching, logging & extraction; NIC offloading disabled by default; unix socket enabled by default;...

CVE-2014-6603

The SSHParseBanner function in SSH parser app-layer-ssh.c in Suricata before 2.0.4 allows remote attackers to bypass SSH rules, cause a denial of service crash, or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted banner, which triggers a large memory allocation or an out-of-bounds write...

CVE-2014-6603: Undefined Security Weakness

The SSHParseBanner function in SSH parser app-layer-ssh.c in Suricata before 2.0.4 allows remote attackers to bypass SSH rules, cause a denial of service crash, or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted banner, which triggers a large memory allocation or an out-of-bounds write...

Net Solutions' Hack Heightens Role of ISP in App Layer Security

According to research, the malicious iframe used in the latest Network Solutions attack pointed to corpadsinc.com which then downloads Adobe exploits onto victims’ machines. The hacks raise an issue increasingly being faced by Website owners: what’s the responsibility of the ISP or service or clo...