Installing a Perl module using CPAN

In this short post, we will discuss on how to install a perl module using CPAN. First, login to the CPAN interactive shell using the command: # cpan Once, you are in, install a module using the syntax, cpan> install package:function eg, to install the...

mod_ruid2 – Issues in mutual exclusion ?

The mod_ruid2 Apache module changes the permissions of all of the HTTP requests for a domain to the permissions of the owner of that domain. This is just like suexec or the module mod_suphp ! If you have enabled mod_ruid2 in your server and if there are any scripts...

The Ghost vulnerability – CVE-2015-0235

So there we have another vulnerability affecting the world of opensource. Nick-named as GHOST Vulnerability,  it affects the glibc library shipped along with the linux systems. It has been assigned CVE-2015-0235 As per redhat, GHOST is a ‘buffer overflow’...