Ask Noah Show Episode 263: Log4Shell Security Alert!
Dec 15, 2021
56:21
-- During The Show --
00:45 Steve's OpenSuse Experience
- Splash Screen
- Kernel Panic
03:10 Caller Ed
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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