Transaction Log Truncation Failure for MSSQL Instances on Shared VHDX

Challenge When attempting to run a backup job for a Microsoft SQL Server that is in either a SQL Server Failover Cluster or AlwaysOn Failover Cluster with a shared VHDX, the backup job reports the warning: Failed to truncate transaction logs for SQL instances: . Possible reasons: lack of...

SQL VSS Writer is missing: databases will be backed up in crash-consistent state and transaction log processing will be skipped

Challenge A job displays the warning: SQL VSS Writer is missing: databases will be backed up in crash-consistent state and transaction log processing will be skipped Solution Support Scope Please note that the warning message displayed by Veeam Backup & Replication is a courtesy notification...

Hyper-V crash consistent Backups/Replicas due to McAfee mfehidk driver

Challenge If McAfee FS minifilter MFEHIDK driver is loaded into Windows kernel, then it doesn't allow any other driver to load at lower altitudes, it only allows other drivers to load at higher altitudes, supposedly because of proactive defense logic of McAfee Antivirus. Therefore Veeam CBT drive...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: docker-io-1.4.1-6.fc20

Docker is an open-source engine that automates the deployment of any application as a lightweight, portable, self-sufficient container that will run virtually anywhere. Docker containers can encapsulate any payload, and will run consistently on and between virtually any server. The same container...

[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: docker-io-1.3.2-2.fc21

Docker is an open-source engine that automates the deployment of any application as a lightweight, portable, self-sufficient container that will run virtually anywhere. Docker containers can encapsulate any payload, and will run consistently on and between virtually any server. The same container...

Updated varnish packages fix CVE-2013-4484 and correct service behaviour

Updated varnish packages fix security vulnerabilities: Varnish before 3.0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service child-process crash and temporary caching outage via a GET request with trailing whitespace characters and no URI CVE-2013-4484. Also, the services have been converted...

[Websecurify] Web Security Testing Runtime

A Complete Suite Of Web Security Tools The Suite provides a complete and functional marketplace of highly integrated web application security tools. You will find that different areas are covered by various domain-specific solutions. The Suite consists of automated scanners, fuzzers, utilities an...

A Decade of Microsoft Patch Tuesday Security Updates

On Oct. 9, 2003, Microsoft announced its new security patching process that would end up being a catalyst for significant change in the information security community. Ten years ago, the program was announced with a press release that promised “Improved patch management processes, policies and...

0x80042327 or Error: VSSControl: -2147212505

Challenge You receive the following error on backup or replication processes during VSS guest processing: 0x80042327 or Error: VSSControl: -2147212505 Solution 0x80042327 translates to the VSS error "VSSEREBOOTREQUIRED". This error is reflecting that the system is pending reboot due to an...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : Unbreakable Enterprise kernel (ELSA-2012-2013)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2012-2013 advisory. - KVM: Ensure all vcpus are consistent with in-kernel irqchip settings Avi Kivity Bugdb: 13871 CVE-2012-1601 Tenable has extracted the preceding...

[Dradis Pro v1.7] Framework to enable effective information sharing

Dradis Pro is framework to enable effective information sharing, specially during security assessments. Dradis is a self-contained web application that provides a centralised repository of information to keep track of what has been done so far, and what is still ahead. Changelog v1.7 This is the...

Fedora 10 : icu-4.0-3.1.fc10 (2009-6273)

CVE-2009-0153 Handle illegal sequences consistently Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues...