As many of you will know a few days back one or more of Red Hat's servers were compromised. Committed is a word to say that courts broke up the network and are entered as pedro for his house. We now know that both Fedora and Red Hat were cracked.

As a direct result, Fedora is changing its package to encrypt your key. The intruder was able to sign a small number of packages of OpenSSH associated only with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (i386 and x86_64 architectures for) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (x86_64).

This update has been classified as safety critical. If you run a server-based Red Hat and is connected to the internet, update the system immediately.

Official announcement of Red Hat Network - RHN

Last week Red Hat detected an intrusion on certain of its computer systems and took immediate action. While the investigation into the intrusion is on-going, our initial focus was to review and test the distribution channel we use with our customers, Red Hat Network (RHN) and its associated security measures. Based on these efforts, we remain highly confident that our systems and processes prevented from compromising the intrusion RHN or the content distributed via RHN and accordingly believe that customers who keep their systems updated using Red Hat Network are not at risk. We are issuing this alert primarily for those who may obtain Red Hat binary packages via channels other than those of subscribers official Red Hat.

The following products have been affected:
=> Red Hat Desktop (v. 4)
=> Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
=> Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4)
=> Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4.5.z)
=> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
=> Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4)
=> Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4.5.z)
=> Red Hat Enterprise Linux WAS (v. 4)

How can update or patch my system

Enter the affected system as root and type this command: 


  [root @ redhatserver ~] # yum update


And yet many people prefer Redhat on Debian, ignorant!

More info

Although CentOS depends on the tree of Red Hat, this was not affected by the bug.

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