Xen security updates issued

Due to an exploit discovered in our billing and support system, our system was taken offline temporarily. This was done to ensure client data safety. The exploit was patched a short time afterwards, however we have decided to keep the billing portal temporarily offline until validity of this patch…

Researchers from universities in Adelaide, Eindhoven, Chicago, Maryland and Pennsylvania have published a paper describing how they used a local side-channel attack to break the Libgcrypt encryption library. The exploit could be used to recover a RSA-1024 key.

An update for CloudLinux CageFS was just released to address a security vulnerability and it is recommended that you update as soon as possible. (This update was found by RACK911 Labs.)

WordPress 4.7.2 was released last Thursday, January 26th. WordPress have just announced that In addition to the three security vulnerabilities mentioned in the original release post, WordPress 4.7 and 4.7.1 had one additional vulnerability for which disclosure was delayed.

An update for cPanel was just released to address various security vulnerabilities. These updates provide targeted changes to address security concerns with cPanel and WHM. We recommend that you update as soon as possible.

Simply patching systems against the Bash/Shellshock vulnerability may not be adequate. Attacks exploiting the flaw appeared within a day of its disclosure. Those attacks may have made changes to systems that would not be remedied by the application of a patch.

An update for Magento was just released to address a critical security vulnerability and it is recommended that you update as soon as possible. Official Link: http://bit.ly/1flmoA8 Source: hostingseclist.com

An update for Xen was just released to address two major security vulnerabilities and it is recommended that you update as soon as possible.

Researchers have found a serious bug in the WP Live Chat Support plugin. This is the second time in six weeks that a vulnerability has been found in the plugin which is being used on thousands of WordPress websites. The latest bug allows hackers to inject their own code…

A serious vulnerability has been discovered in older versions of the popular Code Snippets plugin for WordPress. The flaw allowed anybody to forge a request on behalf of an administrator and inject executable code on a vulnerable site. This is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) to Remote Code Execution…

An update for OpenSSL on RHEL was just released to help address the Poodle OpenSSL security vulnerability and it is recommended that you update as soon as possible. This update adds support for the TLS Fallback Signaling Cipher Suite Value (TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV), which can be used to prevent protocol downgrade…

Attackers are hijacking vulnerable home routers to launch attacks against WordPress sites. The attacks exploit two flaws in the TR-069 router management protocol to send malicious requests to port 7547. Experts have been advising home users to limit access to port 7547. Internet service providers (ISPs) could take steps…

WordPress 4.3.1 is now available. This is a security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately. This release addresses three issues, including two cross-site scripting vulnerabilities and a potential privilege escalation.

The OpenSSL project team would like to announce the forthcoming release of OpenSSL versions 1.0.2d and 1.0.1p. These releases will be made available on 9th July. They will fix a single security defect classified as “high” severity. This defect does not affect the 1.0.0 or 0.9.8 releases.

An update for LiteSpeed 4 & 5 was just released to address a security vulnerability within OpenSSL (CVE-2015-1793) and it is recommended that you update as soon as possible.