Intrusion Protection free (through September 2004) Low-cost subscription bundle available Change in the role of the Power User Reduced Fees for Home User Subscriptions Astaro has been offering the base level components of Astaro Security Linux for up to 10 users at no cost for home users for personal, non-commercial and non-revenue generating use in a private home. This base license includes the firewall, VPN Gateway, management platform, reporting, and Spam Protection subscription
ASL V5 Release Candidate is Available
Astaro is pleased to announce the availability of the Astaro Security Linux V5 Release Candidate. Thanks to anybody on this board who contributed to this release! We received a tremendous amount of excellent feedback during the past year and during our Beta test. We are planning to ship the General Availability release within a week. The next few days will give us extra time to validate improvements made in Astaro Security Linux V5 during the final days of beta testing.
[High] New Up2Date 4.017
Urgency: HIGH (low, Middle, HIGH) Size: 14.8MB (14,805,335 bytes) md5sum: 03ec527ef9dde9b8e9b04d4951c1629a After updating from 4.015 or earlier to 4.017, a new kernel (2.4.22) is used for enhanced hardware features and drivers. This new kernel has new ACPI/APIC handling and may conflict with faulty ACPI BIOS implementations. By default we did not change any ACPI/APIC settings, which resulted in full ACPI/APIC support for users having started with a 4.000 and APIC support (without ACPI) for users having started with a 4.008 ISO installation. In case you encounter a problem with 4.017 Up2Date when booting up the system (NICs/controllers not recognized/working), please try the following: On the LILO boot prompt, type: “default noapic” Boot up and check your system In case this did not help, type: “default noapic acpi=off” Boot up and check your system Add the needed parameters to the append line in /emergency/boot/etc/lilo.conf Call: “lilo -r /emergency/boot” We republished the Up2Date 4.017, making sure everybody has both parameters in his configuration file for compatibility reasons
Additional note to Up2Date 4.017
Astaro recommends that Up2date 4.017 should **not** be applied to any production system at this time because of the included kernel upgrade and reboot.
Astaro Security Linux 4.017 (new V4 ISO)
This is the fourth V4 ISO: asl-4.017. It includes the released V4-Up2Dates 4.001-4.016 and some new features and bugfixes.
[High] Up2Date 4.015
Urgency: HIGH (low, Middle, HIGH) Size: 0.3MB (334,782 bytes) md5sum: 3ee81135781c7ad4ef85a82568966653 Remarks Required previous version is 4.014 Existing configuration will not be changed sshd will be restarted Bugfix (please refer to the known issue list on http://docs.astaro.org ) second sshd vulnerability CAN-2003-0693 fixed Download Information All Up2Dates are GNUPG-signed! The Astaro Up2Date technology makes it easy to upgrade your installed Astaro Security Linux to the latest version. There are three ways to apply an Up2Date package to the system: Log on to WebAdmin, navigate to “System -> Up2Date Service” and start a “Update now” in “System Up2Date. An extra browser window will show the progress of the Up2Date process and the System Administrator will receive a notification email once the Up2Date process has finished successfully.
Astaro Security Linux 4.008 (new V4 ISO)
This is the second V4 ISO: asl-4.008. It includes the released V4-Up2Dates 4.001-4.007 and some new features and bugfixes. Remarks This ISO adds support for AMD K6, Intel P1 and VIA C3 CPUs as well as modern boards with dual-CPU support and interrupt controller programming (APIC). It also updates all occurrences of glibc (security fix). New/Changed/Improved The new Linux kernel includes the security routing-cache-hash and TCP/IP fragment reassembly handling patch, the tty expolit patch, an ext3 bugfix, new modules for PPTP, drivers for NICs, support for the Toshiba-LCD and support for Compaq SmartArray 5 and Adaptec I2O RAID
[Middle] Up2Date 4.005
Urgency: Middle (low, Middle, HIGH) Size: 4.0MB (4,074,371bytes) md5sum: 25b50657261434f83f17ff0dee63e57c Remarks Required previous version is 4.004 Existing configuration will not be changed HTTP proxy will be restarted WebAdmin will be restarted – Up2Date window will be closed New/Changed/Improved Improved LDAP Authentication with more user configurable options Added “Enforce IPSec policy” flag to IPsec policies Added “Caching” option to HTTP Proxy Added three new categories to Surf Protection ('uncategorized', 'suspicious' and 'failed to categorize') Bugfix (please refer to the known issue list on http://docs.astaro.org ) ID369 Some Logfiles can not be deleted / Select all does not work ID370 It is possible to create an accesspoint interface without SSID ID372 PPTP Livelog does not append new events ID404 WebAdmin shows confusing error when logging in without password ID421 Network- and servicegroups may not work correctly ID423 DHCP Server page takes a lot of time for loading ID433 Mail addresses with angle brackets are not shown in the logfiles ID437 Notification does not show date of last login ID446 Virtual interfaces are incorrectly displayed in network reporting ID461 Selfdefined Services not visible after importing a V3.2 backup Download Information All Up2Dates are GNUPG-signed! The Astaro Up2Date technology makes it easy to upgrade your installed Astaro Security Linux to the latest version.There are three ways to apply an Up2Date package to the system: Log on to WebAdmin, navigate to “System -> Up2Date Service” and start a “Update now” in “System Up2Date. An extra browser window will show the progress of the Up2Date process and the System Administrator will receive a notification email once the Up2Date process has finished successfully
[High] Sun Cobalt Up2Date 2.033
Urgency: HIGH (low, Middle, HIGH) Size: 0.02 MB (24,146 Bytes) Remarks Required previous version is 2.032 Existing configuration will not be changed Active PPTP-VPN connections will be restarted New/Changed/Improved Fixed PPTP server buffer overflow vulnerability Renewed Up2Date PGP keys Download Information All Up2Dates are GNUPG-signed! The Astaro Up2Date technology makes it easy to upgrade your installed Astaro Security Linux to the latest version. To apply an Up2Date package to the system: Log on to WebAdmin, navigate to “System -> Up2Date Service” and start a “Update now” in “System Up2Date. An extra browser window will show the progress of the Up2Date process and the System Administrator will receive a notification email once the Up2Date process has finished successfully. To install Astaro Security Linux, you need the installation ISO image, available on our download page .
[High] Up2Date 4.003
Urgency: HIGH (low, Middle, HIGH) Size: 4.5MB (4,607,429 bytes) md5sum: ea89f759175f3fade5cf8b33cdfd555a Remarks Required previous version is 4.002 Existing configuration will not be changed Active IP and VPN connections will be restarted Remote SSH connections will be lost MiddleWare will be restarted New/Changed/Improved Performance increase of the spam detection engine Fixed 100% CPU load problem caused by the virus scanner OpenSSL update: fixes several vulnerabilites updated https server for WebAdmin updated smtp proxy updated ssh server Fixed PPTP server buffer overflow vulnerability Bugfix (please refer to the known issue list on http://docs.astaro.org ) ID408 Fixed clearing of HTTP proxy cache ID409 Fixed timeout problem of the smtp virus scanner ID452 Fixed rare race-condition with “reboot”-notifications on DSL-machines ID455 Renewed Up2Date PGP keys Download Information All Up2Dates are GNUPG-signed! The Astaro Up2Date technology makes it easy to upgrade your installed Astaro Security Linux to the latest version.