This notice contains information for the group of server updates (or dist) occurring March 12, 2012 through March 14, 2012 in all datacenters. Until that time, all of the information included in this document is subject to change.
The following updates affect popular or important services and programs:
The following updates will be made to the Linux VPS/MPS platform.
The following services will be restarted by Verio as part of the update:
The following Linux VPS/MPS updates may require additional attention or action to take advantage of the full benefits of the update. Any possible actions are listed at the end of the individual update information.
To upgrade existing installations of MySQL5.5, connect to your server through SSH and execute the following from the command prompt:
# vinstall mysql5.5
To upgrade existing installations of MySQL5.1, connect to your server through SSH and execute the following from the command prompt:
# vinstall mysql5.1
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2012-0830
To upgrade existing installations of PHP5, connect to your server through SSH and execute the following from the command prompt:
# vinstall php5.3
To upgrade existing installations of phpMyAdmin, connect to your server through SSH and execute the following from the command prompt:
# vinstall phpmyadmin
The following Linux VPS/MPS updates do not require action by customers to take advantage of the full benefits of the update. Some services may be rebooted as part of the update.
CPX will be updated to remove the telnet service from the Managed Services list.
OpenSSH will be upgraded to version 5.9p1.
ProFTPd will be upgraded to version 1.3.4a.
cURL will be upgraded to version 7.23.1. In addition, libcurl and libcurl-devel will be upgraded to version 7.23.1.
nspr will be upgraded to version 4.8.8-1. In addition, nspr-devel will be upgraded to version 4.8.8-1.
nss will be upgraded to version 3.12.10-4. In addition, nss-devel will be upgraded to 3.12.10-4.
The following updates will be made to the FreeBSD VPS/MPS v3 platform.
The following services will be restarted by Verio as part of the update:
The following VPS/MPS v3 updates may require additional attention or action to take advantage of the full benefits of the update. Any possible actions are listed at the end of the individual update information.
To upgrade existing installations of MySQL5.5, connect to your server through SSH and execute the following from the command prompt:
# vinstall mysql5.5
The vinstall for MySQL5.1 will be upgraded to version 5.1.61.
To upgrade existing installations of MySQL5.1, connect to your server through SSH and execute the following from the command prompt:
# vinstall mysql5.1
The vinstall for PHP5 will be upgraded to version 5.3.10 to address the security vulnerability (CVE-2012-0830) discussed here:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2012-0830
To upgrade existing installations of PHP5, connect to your server through SSH and execute the following from the command prompt:
# vinstall php5.3
The vinstall for phpMyAdmin will be upgraded to version 3.4.9.
To upgrade existing installations of phpMyAdmin, connect to your server through SSH and execute the following from the command prompt:
# vinstall phpmyadmin
The following VPS/MPS v3 updates do not require action by customers to take advantage of the full benefits of the update. Some services may be rebooted as part of the update.
For security reasons, telnet was previously disabled within the server configuration. Now telnetd will be removed from the server and will no longer be supported. Please consider using a secure remote connection such as SSH.
CPX will be updated to remove the telnet service from the Managed Services list.
OpenSSL will be upgraded to version 1.0.0g.
OpenSSH will be upgraded to version 5.9p1.
ProFTPd will be upgraded to version 1.3.4a.
Sudo will be upgraded to version 1.8.3_2 to address the security vulnerability (CVE-2012-0809) discussed here:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2012-0809
FreeType2 will be upgraded to version 2.4.7 to address the security vulnerability (CVE-2011-3256) discussed here:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-3256
The following updates will be made to the FreeBSD VPS/MPS v2 platform.
The following services will be restarted by Verio as part of the update:
The following VPS/MPS v2 updates do not require action by customers to take advantage of the full benefits of the update. Some services may be rebooted as part of the update.
For security reasons, telnet was previously disabled within the server configuration. Now telnetd will be removed from the server and will no longer be supported. Please consider using a secure remote connection such as SSH.
CPX will be updated to remove the telnet service option from the Managed Services list.
