Red Hat Security Advisory - Apache, Sep 05, 2003

3. Problem description:

The Apache HTTP server is a powerful, full-featured, efficient, and freely-available Web server.

Ben Laurie found a bug in the optional renegotiation code in mod_ssl included with Apache 2 versions 2.0.35 through 2.0.46 that can cause cipher suite restrictions to be ignored. This is triggered if optional renegotiation is used (SSLOptions +OptRenegotiate) along with verification of client certificates and a change to the cipher suite over the renegotiation. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2003-0192 to this issue.

Kilgore decided to purchase new Dell hardware and train his staff on Linux. Within 90 days, Lithonia was in production with the new Oracle software running on Linux at what Kilgore estimates to be one-third the cost of what a Unix system would have been.

"Since then, we've followed the Linux wave. There's always improvements to the kernel, and we reap the benefits as they happen," Kilgore said. "We are to the point where we've implemented Oracle ERP at a third lighting plant, and the system is not stressed at all. We're at 99.9% availability."

Security guard company Securis is using embedded Linux to power in-vehicle terminals in its fleet of mobile units in Belgium.

IBM has put its money where its mouth is and created a big-budget ad to get across to Average Joe just why Linux is so great.

The American ad will be shown for the first time during the US Open Men's tennis finals next week - which is clever cause Linux is "open" source. It will also be shown in IBM's very pricey slot at the start of the American Football season.

The slogan is "Linux. The Future is Open. IBM." And the ad itself will feature a young blond boy with blue eyes of around Linux's age (i.e. nine or ten) who sits quietly while assorted experts educate him - a football player (in the British sense), an architect, musician, exec, pilot, poet, astronomer and so on will pop up with words of wisdom.

The companies behind the Desktop Linux Consortium include several Linux sellers such as SuSE, MandrakeSoft, Lycoris, Xandros and ArkLinux. It also counts as members CodeWeavers, which sells software to help run Windows programs on Linux systems; OpenOffice, an open-source competitor to Microsoft Office; and the group behind the KDE user interface software.

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