Episode 263: Log4Shell Security Alert!

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00:45 Steve's OpenSuse Experience

• Splash Screen


• Kernel Panic

03:10 Caller Ed

• Best VM server


• Proxmox


• Libvirt + Cockpit


• Ovirt

08:08 Sleuth Asked

• Is there software to send and receive audio over the network that work on phones and Linux machines? My usecase is I want to listen to podcasts from antennapod on my computer and to monitor jitsi and mumble from my phone.


• Alsa Mixer


• IceCast

09:58 TwoBit Asked

• Still using the Google Glass?


• Yes

10:43 Docker Server - Mathieu

• TLS/HTTPS is more than a cert


• HAProxy/Nginx Reverse Proxy


• Check documentation for the project


• Security is more than closing ports


• LetsEncrypt

19:25 Archiving Emails? - Jose

• Download an archive + Thunderbird

23:26 SIP Questions - Andrew

• 3CX SBC


• Upgrade Router to PFSense/OPNSense

28:10 Pick of the Week

• CasaOS


• Help Net Security Article


• Based on Docker


• Easy Self Hosted Services

30:23 Gadget of the Week

• M5stick


• $14 ESP32 Dev Kit

32:52 Centos 8 EOL

• ZDNet Article


• CentOS EOL Dec 31 2021


• Zero Day security patches until Jan 31 2022


• Options
  
  
  • Red Hat Proper
  
  
  • Free Red Hat Developer License's
  
  
  • CentOS Stream
  
  
  • Alma Linux
  
  
  • Cloud Linux OS
  
  
  • Rocky Linux
  
  

38:00 Toyota Makes Keyfob a Service

• The Drive Article


• Requiring subscription to use local keyfob functions

40:38 Pop!_OS 21.10 Released

• System76 Blog Post


• Tech preview of Pop!_OS 21.10 for the RaspberryPi


• System Refresh feature


• Lots of new features

42:44 Main Segment - log4j Vulnerability

• CVE-2021-44228


• Remote Code Execution


• Actively being exploited in the wild


• Used in embedded and IOT devices as well


• Minecraft Exploit Example


• 2.14.1 and earlier vulnerable


• Fixed in Log4j 2.15.0


• Github Attack Surface List


• Responsible disclosure was not followed


• Alternative mitigations available


• Flip the environmental variable ES JAVA OPTS= -D log4j2.formatMsgNoLookups=True


• Cloudflare Mitigation


• Help Net Security Article


• Fortune Article


• We Live Securtiy Article


• The Next Web Article

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