[OpenVPN DoS Vulnerability Announced]

https://forums.openvpn.net/topic17625.html

 

Hi all,

A critical denial of service security vulnerability affecting OpenVPN servers was recently brought to our attention. A fixed version of OpenVPN (2.3.6) will be released today/tomorrow (1st Dec 2014) at around 18:00 UTC.

Brace yourselves for the update.

Best regards,

--
Samuli Sepp?nen
Community Manager
OpenVPN Technologies, Inc

irc freenode net: mattock

 

 

 

[[Notice] Bash CVE]

For anyone who didn't see this today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8361574

 

As of time of posting, there is no patch for Gentoo yet. Watch 'em servers!

[Screenshots]

[IMPORTANT: iptables firewalls in containers]

Note you also cannot use MASQUERADE either.

[Do you REALLY use multilib?]

Pretty sure I only used multilib for Skype and WINE on my Gentoo installs. Notably, with Steam for Linux becoming a thing, it might be good to keep that option open for people.

[Fun things to do with Funtoo Containers]

What are your favorite things to do with Funtoo containers? (Or just servers!)

 

Some fun ideas:

• OpenVPN server - Host your own private LAN, invite your friends, play LAN games over the WAN.
• SSH access on your phone - Yes, Funtoo-on-the-go!
• Datastore - Remote cloud backups, ahoy! (rsync is good for this)
• Headless Browser automation - Use something like http://casperjs.org/ to automate a headless browser and scrape web pages.
• Host an IRC server - Yes!

 

 

[Welcome!]

I'm a bear.