Month: September 2014

Update Hosts via Ansible to Mitigate Bash “Shellshock” Vulnerability

On September 24, 2014 someone posted on the oss-sec mailing list about a bash vulnerability that likely affects several decades of bash versions (something like 1.14 – 4.3!). The vulnerability — aptly named “Shellshock” — can lead to remote code execution on un-patched hosts, for example web servers parsing HTTP environment variables via CGI GET […]

Clear Enormous GlusterFS Mount Logs

Today Munin was complaining that a partition is nearly full on one of my servers. Looking at the disk usage graph it kinda seems like a slow loris DOS attack… Sure enough, something has gone and filled up the /var/log partition: $ df -h /var/log/ Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg_root-log 9.9G 9.0G […]