perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Andrew Lake <>]

All;

Last night marked the release of another new Red Hat CVE (Note: This is newer 
than the one shared on July 28th):

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0981.html

If you are a NetInstall user, a 'yum update' may give you a new non-web100 
kernel and therefore break access to NDT/NPAD. Consult our FAQ for more info: 
http://psps.perfsonar.net/toolkit/FAQs.html#Q30

Our read of the CVE does not find any issue of concern specific to the 
toolkit. Its possible the host may be vulnerable to some types of DoS attacks 
in some particular cases. If you are in doubt about your kernel, feel free to 
review the CVE,  upgrade to the latest version, and forgo NDT/NPAD support 
for the time being.  We are in the process of building and testing a new 
kernel, and will alert you when we have our web100 patched version available. 
We'll try to have it ready as soon as possible.

Thank you for your patience,
The perfSONAR Team