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This morning got brought to attention by my colleague, Iwan regarding this bash Code breached.  I am no linux or unix guy but when comes to security this is not to be play with especially in industry where security and compliance is highly evaluated. A security vulnerability was detected known as "Shell Shock" which is a bash shell commonly found in unix and linux platform.  You can refer to CVE-2014-6271 , CVE-2014-7169 . VMware was fast to publish this discover as well and you can read the post here and also to follow up with this KB on what products will be impacted.  So check back the KB to see which product from VMware is impacted and how to mitigate. Note: that ESXi are not impacted with this "Shell shock" vulnerability. As for other platforms, you would have to look back to your respective principle to find out if it is affected and the solution to resolve. Update 29th Sept 2014 As extracted from CSOOnline , CentOS versions 5-7, Ubuntu 10.04,...

I am very new to vCloud Director and in such have a hard time learning how to install this.  I have to rely on reading the installation guide but this cannot beat anything that have been written by someone who have gone through the installation and listed down some of the requirements.  This was all done in my home lab in such, the FQDN here may not apply for production case. I am no linux nor oracle expert so I am going to stick most of my work on Windows wherever possible.  As vCD has released to 1.5 that comes with SQL support, I am lucky that I can drop oracle completely.  As for the requirement for linux, I have used RHEL 5.5. Do not that RHEL is supported for 5.4, 5.5 and 5.6 also know as RHEL 5 update 4 to update 6. Here are some of the reference I used to get my vCloud Director working. Installation of vCD on RHEL (vCloud Director 1.5 Installation Guide, Pg 26-17) Installing vCloud Director 1.5 on SQL 2008 (vCloud Director 1.5 Installa...